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Note publique d'information : @"Neoplatonic allegorical interpretation expounds how literary texts present philosophical
ideas in an enigmatic and coded form, offering an alternative path to the divine truths.
The Neoplatonist Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphs is one of the most significant
allegorical interpretation handed down to us from Antiquity. This monograph, exclusively
dedicated to the analysis of On the Cave of Nymphs, demonstrates that Porphyry interprets
Homer’s verse from Odyssey 13.102-112 to convey his philosophical thoughts, particularly
on the material world, relationship between soul and body and the salvation of the
soul through the doctrines of Plato and Plotinus. The Homeric cave of the nymphs with
two gates is a station where the souls descend into genesis and ascend to the intelligible
realm. Porphyry associates Odysseus’ long wanderings with the journey of the soul
and its salvation from the irrational to rational through escape from all toils of
the material world."
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