1 Orpheus; the type of Christ: animals from the Emblemes Sacrez (1667) by the Jesuit father, Augustin Chesneau 10
2 Fragments from the Derveni Papyrus. From I. Papadopoulou and L. Muellner, Poetry as Initiation: The Center for Hellenic Studies Symposium on the Derveni Papyrus (Hellenic Studies Series), 2014 13
3 A Festival of Isis. From W. Burkert, Ancient Mystery Cults, Harvard, 1931 p. 55 23
4 Macrobius writing his book. From a 12th-century manuscript of Macrobius’s Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis, Copenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek, ms. NKS 218 4 ca. 1150 42
5 Silenus. From the Pio-Clementine Museum, Vatican Museums 48
6 Pythagoras. Frontispiece from Moralitatis Arcana ex Pythagorae, Ferrara: Gilli, 1669 51
7 Clement of Alexandria. From an image of 1584 55
8 Hugh of St. Victor. A diagram of the symbolism of Noah’s Ark from B. McGinn The Growth of Mysticism, SCM Press, 1994 69
9 Marsilio Ficino. Portrait of Marsilio Ficino, Château De Versailles 73
10 Pico dell Mirandola. His medal 75
11 Andreas Alciato. Virtuti Fortuna Comes, his Device illustrated in the Emblemata 1577 edition 77
12 Fortunius Licetus. A portrait of Apuleius from his Hieroglyphica, Padua: Sardi, 1653 85
13 Pascal. A page from a manuscript Fonds Français 12449 Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris and cited in Hui, A Theory of the Aphorism, Princeton U.P., 2019 88
14 Francis Bacon in the chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge 90
15 An example of the Greek Magical Papyri 121
16 Harpocrates from de Gomberville, La Doctrine des Moeurs of 1646 139
17 Artemidorus. The title page of the first Latin edition of 1539 144
18 The Dolphin and the Anchor. This mark is from the Rime del Burchiello dated 1597, the year that the house of Aldus closed its doors. The mark is pirated but with no fear of retribution. 155
19 Prudentius. Opening lines of the Psychomachia 1509 172
20 Christine de Pisan. The Epistre of Othea. A page from the manuscript Morgan Library, MS 715, fol. 209, illustrated in the Epistre of Othea (trans. Stepen Scrope, ed. Curt Bühler) Early English Society, 1970 175
21 Horapollo. The baboon Horapollo Ed. Kerver, Paris 1551 184
22 Nicolas Caussin, Electorum Symbolorum Et Parabolarum Historicarum Syntagmata, Paris: De Beauvais, 1618 186
23 Epiphanius of Salamis (circa 315–403), Bishop of Salamis 190
24 A page from a Biblia Pauperum 205