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Animation of statues in ancient civilizations and neoplatonism
pp. 118-140
Abstrakt
When Plotinus in the Enneads (I.6.9, 7ff) describes the process of working on one's own inner statue, this "demiurgic" work is simply an interiorization of the ancient hieratic art (based on the symbolic identity of the microcosmic human body and the animated divine statue) that reveals its true esoteric meaning.
Publication details
Published in:
Vassilopoulou Panayiota, Clark Stephen R. L. (2009) Late antique epistemology: other ways to truth. Dordrecht, Springer.
Seiten: 118-140
Referenz:
Uzdavinys Algis (2009) „Animation of statues in ancient civilizations and neoplatonism“, In: P. Vassilopoulou & S. R. Clark (eds.), Late antique epistemology, Dordrecht, Springer, 118–140.