Jodocus Greverus's Secretum Nobilissimorum is a sixteenth-century alchemical text that includes allegorical readings of classical myths as encoded alchemical teachings, contributing to the tradition of mythological alchemy that Maier inherits. De Jong (1969) identifies Greverus alongside Robertus Vallensis as a source for the frontispiece commentary of Atalanta Fugiens, where the Ovidian race narrative receives its alchemical interpretation. Together these two authorities establish the hermeneutic precedent for Maier's central conceit of reading the Atalanta-Hippomenes myth as an allegory of the volatile-fixed dynamic in the Great Work.