Hierotheus

(Ἱερόθεος). Works Περὶ τῆς Θείας καὶ Ἱερᾶς Τέχνης, De Divina et Sacra Arte

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]

(Ἱρόθεος), a Byzantine monk, wllo lived probably in the beginning of the fifteenth century, wrote a work entitled Διάγραμμα, a strange sort of dissertation, in which he endeavours to explain the nature of God by means of geometrical figures. There are several other Byzantine writers of that name, but they are of no importance. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. pp. 636, 637.) [W.P]