---
name: Olympiodorus the Alchemist of Alexandria
name_greek: Ὀλυμπιόδωρος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς
eul_aid: veu
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/authors/olympiodorus-the-alchemist-veu"
period: Late Antique
dialect: Philosophical Koine
works_count: 2
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Olympiodorus the Alchemist of Alexandria

*Ὀλυμπιόδωρος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς*

**eul_aid:** `veu` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/authors/olympiodorus-the-alchemist-veu)

Olympiodorus the Alchemist was a 6th century CE Greek writer on alchemy. Two surviving works on alchemical processes. Free to download from the Greek archive.

## Works

- [On Sacred Art](https://eulogikon.org/works/olympiodorus-alexandria-sacred-art-veu-ab) — *Περὶ Ἱερᾶς Τέχνης* · `veu-ab`
- [To the Active Zosimus, What Was Said by Hermes and the Philosophers](https://eulogikon.org/works/olympiodorus-alexandria-active-zosimus-hermes-veu-aa) — *Εἰς τὸ κατ’ ἐνέργειαν ζωσίμου ὅσα ἀπὸ Ἑρμοῦ καὶ* · `veu-aa`

## License and provenance

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