Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of Their Texts by Struck Peter T

Author:Struck, Peter T. [Struck, Peter T.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-02-08T16:00:00+00:00

Stoic allegorical approaches regularly exhibit such a concern to distinguish what is learned in reading the myths from superstition. We have seen it articulated already by Balbus in the De natura deorum.16 These anxieties are perhaps further indication that such reading tends to take on a devotional character, which the scholarly Cornutus and his Stoic peers embrace but are careful to distinguish from mere ritualism. We have seen such a devotional character (contrasted with mere ritualism) in the Derveni commentator and will see it again in the Neoplatonists. An embrace of the sacramental dimension of allegorical reading comes out most strongly in late figures like Proclus and Pseudo-Dionysius.

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