Proclus' Hymns: Essays, Translations, Commentary
- ISBN-10
- 9047401034
- ISBN-13
- 9789047401032
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 341
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-09-28
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Author
- Robbert Maarten van den Berg
Description
This book puts the hymns by the Neoplatonist Proclus in the context of his philosophy and offers a detailed commentary together with a new translation of them.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Greek Poems to the Gods: Hymns from Homer to Proclus
By Barry B. Powell"--The Classical Review "Lucid and remarkably successful."--The New York Review of Books "Accessible yet true to the feel and sense of the Greek.
-
The Reception of the Homeric Hymns
By Andrew Faulkner, Andreas Schwab, Athanassios VergadosAthena, on the other hand, was the patron of Philosophy and, according to Marinus, the personal guardian deity of Proclus. Proclus' hymns, furthermore, lack the narrative sections that are so characteristic of the longer Homeric Hymns.
-
Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy as a Product of Late Antiquity
By Antonio DonatoVan den Berg, Proclus' Hymns, 66–70. Van den Berg, Proclus' Hymns, 67–8. Van den Berg, Proclus' Hymns, 70–4. The difference between the way in which Plotinus and Porphyry regarded theurgy and that of Iamblichus and Proclus was famously ...
-
Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns
Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns examines the forms and functions of narratives in Ancient Greek hymns, in the contexts of the hymn genre and the development of ancient Greek narrative literature.
-
The Homeric Hymns: Interpretative Essays
By Andrew FaulknerStudies in Ancient Greek Poetry Presented to M. L. West on His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford). Finkelberg, M. (2000), 'The Cypria, the Iliad, and the Problem of Multiformity in Oral and Written Tradition', CPh95: 1–11.
-
Neoplatonism after Derrida: Parallelograms
By Stephen GershAmong the extant works of Proclus are seven Hymns: I. “to Helios,” II. ... 184 Although the writer himself does not explicitly state the linguistic theory underlying his hymns, it is relatively simple to reconstruct it by comparing ...
-
Laus Platonici Philosophi: Marsilio Ficino and his Influence
What is of interest here is that Proclus's doctrine of natural sympathy, unlike Plotinus's metaphysics, makes hymn-singing ... By examining Ficino's doctrine of hymns in De vita coelitus comparanda in the light of Proclus's hymns and ...
-
Rabbi Joseph Gikatilla's Hermeneutics
By Elke MorlokIn Ģikatilla's writings we shall see that the entrance into the gates of light is never the result of passivity on the part of the mystic but rather a highly active interpretation of the text performed on several levels .
-
Greek Poems to the Gods: Hymns from Homer to Proclus
By Barry B. PowellHe brings out their epic tone, piety, liveliness, and humor, while his effective introductions and notes round the collection with relevant historical and cultural context.”—Carolina López-Ruiz, Professor of Classics at The Ohio State ...
-
Lux in Tenebris: The Visual and the Symbolic in Western Esotericism
We read in Proclus' Hymns:67 Such are the so-called symbols of the gods: they are uniform in the superior orders, but multiform in the inferior. Imitating these symbols, theurgy too produces them through uttered, though inarticulate, ...