Creation in the Poimandres and in Other Creation Stories
My paper develops from the observation that the cosmogonies in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Hermetic Poimandres are related to each other. After an analysis of Ovid’s text as an example of a diakrisis cosmogony in which the world is created by the sorting out of its originally confused elements, I g...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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De Gruyter
[2020]
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Archiv für Religionsgeschichte
Anno: 2020, Volume: 21/22, Fascicolo: 1, Pagine: 411-421 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
Ovidius Naso, Publius 43 a.C.-17, Metamorphoses
/ Cosmogonia
/ Corpus Hermeticum. Poimandres
/ Creazione
/ Gregorius, Nazianzenus 329-390, Carmina moralia
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| Notazioni IxTheo: | BE Religioni greco-romane KAB Cristianesimo delle origini NBD Creazione |
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Religionswissenschaften
B Theologie und Religion B Altertumswissenschaften B Antike Religionsgeschichte B Klassische Altertumswissenschaften |
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| Riepilogo: | My paper develops from the observation that the cosmogonies in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the Hermetic Poimandres are related to each other. After an analysis of Ovid’s text as an example of a diakrisis cosmogony in which the world is created by the sorting out of its originally confused elements, I give a short overview of the history of this type of cosmogony before Ovid. I then analyze the respective cosmogony in the Poimandres as another example of the same typology. A look at the use of diakrisis cosmogonies in late antiquity, including in the first ‘Moral Poem’ of Gregory of Nazianzus, closes the paper and demonstrates the attraction of this cosmogonical model in the Imperial epoch. |
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| ISSN: | 1868-8888 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Archiv für Religionsgeschichte
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/arege-2020-0021 |