Escaping Plato’s Cave: Some Platonic Metaphors in Symeon the New Theologian
This article proposes that the imagery Symeon the New Theologian employs for expressing his mystical experience in several passages of his Hymns of Divine Love might have been inspired by the texts of Plato and the Platonic tradition. The Hymns showing the traces of St. Symeon’s rethinking of the al...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2015
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Scrinium
Jahr: 2015, Band: 11, Heft: 1, Seiten: 181-196 |
| IxTheo Notationen: | KAB Kirchengeschichte 30-500; Frühchristentum VA Philosophie |
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Symeon the New Theologian
Hymns of Divine Love
Plato's Cave
wings of soul
Paradise of virtues
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| Zusammenfassung: | This article proposes that the imagery Symeon the New Theologian employs for expressing his mystical experience in several passages of his Hymns of Divine Love might have been inspired by the texts of Plato and the Platonic tradition. The Hymns showing the traces of St. Symeon’s rethinking of the allegory of the Cave, the metaphor of the wings of the soul, and the intellectual Paradise of virtues are analyzed, opening the discussion on the earliest stages of the Platonic revival in eleventh-century Byzantium.
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| ISSN: | 1817-7565 |
| Enthält: | In: Scrinium
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00111p17 |