Hiero'theus
(
*(Iero/qeos).
Works
He was the author of a Greek poem, consisting of 233 barbarous Iambic lines on alchemy, entitled
Περὶ τῆς Θείας καὶ Ἱερᾶς Τέχνης,
De Divina et Sacra Arte (sc.
Chrysopocia).
He appears to have been a Christian, but nothing more is known of him; and, with respect to his date, it can only be said that the poem is evidently the work of a comparatively recent writer.
Editions
It was published for the first time in the second volume of Ideler's Physici et Medici Graeci Minores, Berol. 1842, 8vo. [
W.A.G]