page_title: Oedipus Aegyptiacus
hierarchical_section_title: Oedipus Aegyptiacus
caption_attribution_description: English: Frontispiece to Athanasius Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus, published in 1652-1654.
context_page_description: Oedipus Aegyptiacus is Athanasius Kircher's supreme work of Egyptology.
  The three full folio tomes of ornate illustrations and diagrams were published in Rome over the period 1652–54. Kircher cited as his sources Chaldean astrology, Hebrew kabbalah, Greek myth, Pythagorean mathematics, Arabian alchemy and Latin philology.
context_section_description: Oedipus Aegyptiacus is Athanasius Kircher's supreme work of Egyptology.
  The three full folio tomes of ornate illustrations and diagrams were published in Rome over the period 1652–54. Kircher cited as his sources Chaldean astrology, Hebrew kabbalah, Greek myth, Pythagorean mathematics, Arabian alchemy and Latin philology.
caption: Frontispiece to Kircher's Oedipus Aegyptiacus; the Sphinx, confronted by Oedipus/Kircher's learning, admits he has solved her riddle.
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