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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主要作者: Graf, Fritz (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: De Gruyter [2020]
In: Archiv für Religionsgeschichte
Year: 2020, 卷: 21/22, 發布: 1, Pages: 411-421
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Ovidius Naso, Publius 43 BC-17, Metamorphoses / 天體演化論 / Corpus Hermeticum. Poimandres / 創造 / Gregorius, Nazianzenus 329-390, Carmina moralia
IxTheo Classification:BE Greco-Roman religions
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
NBD Doctrine of Creation
Further subjects:B Religionswissenschaften
B Theologie und Religion
B Altertumswissenschaften
B Antike Religionsgeschichte
B Klassische Altertumswissenschaften
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總結: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.
ISSN:1868-8888
Contains:Enthalten in: Archiv für Religionsgeschichte
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/arege-2020-0021