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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Main Author: Baranov, Vladimir 20. Jht. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Scrinium
Year: 2015, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 181-196
RelBib Classification:KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Symeon the New Theologian
 Hymns of Divine Love
 Plato's Cave
 wings of soul
 Paradise of virtues

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