- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction: ‘A Thing All Living Faces’
-
1 Neoplatonism and Poetics in Ancient Greek and Byzantine Literature -
2 Stages of Ascent: Neoplatonic Affinities in Classical Arabic Poetry -
3 What are Neoplatonic Poetics? Allegory; Figure; Genre -
4 Beauty Stings: Plotinus and Rūzbihān Baqlī on Beauty -
5 Ottoman Poetry: Where the Neoplatonic Dissolves into an Emotional Script for Life -
6 Mihrî Hatun and Neoplatonic Discourse: Legitimation of Women’s Writing in Early Modern Ottoman Poetry -
7 Poetry and Ishraqi Illuminationism among the Esoteric Zoroastrians of Mughal India -
8 Andalusian Hebrew Poems on the Soul and their Afterlife -
9 Karaite Poems about the Nature of the Soul from the Muslim East, Byzantium and Eastern Europe -
10 ‘Nostro intelletto si profonda tanto’: The Philosophical Background of Dante’s Paradiso I, 1–12 and IV, 22–60 -
11 Agathon Redivivus: Love and Incorporeal Beauty in Ficino’s De Amore, Speech V -
12 ‘A Man within a Woman, or even a God’: Vittoria Colonna and 16th-Century Italian Poetic Culture -
13 The Ascent of the Soul: Neoplatonic Themes in the Literature of Golden Age Spain -
14 The Christian Neoplatonism of Francisco de Aldana in the Carta para Arias Montano -
15 A Poetics of Difference: Neoplatonism and the Discourse of Desire in the Early Modern Spanish Love Lyric -
16 An Equivocal Echo: Eugenio Montale -
17 Eroticism of the Infinite: Neoplatonism, Kabbalism and Sufism in the Work of José Ángel Valente -
18 Body and Soul in the Arabic Literature of the Americas -
19 Neoplatonist Echoes in Modern Arabic Poetry: The Case of Muḥammad ʿAfīfī Maṭar -
20 Shards of Infinitude: Neoplatonist Relics in Modern Persian Poetry -
21 The New Image of the Beloved in the Old Mirror: Reflections on the Neoplatonic Tradition in Modern Turkish Poetry -
22 Neoplatonists in Modern Greek Poetry - Index of References to the Enneads of Plotinus
- Index of Citations from the Qur’an
- Index of Names and Places
- Index of Subjects
Neoplatonists in Modern Greek Poetry
Neoplatonists in Modern Greek Poetry
- Chapter:
- (p.454) 22 Neoplatonists in Modern Greek Poetry
- Source:
- Faces of the Infinite
- Author(s):
David Ricks
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This paper analyses a cluster of major Greek poets since 1880 who have referred to key figures from the history of Neoplatonism as a foil to their ancestral Greek Orthodoxy. Though that foil sometimes takes the form of a rejection -- 'Thou hast conquered, o pale Galilaean!' -- it can operate in a variety of ways. Among the cases discussed are Kostis Palamas (1859-1943), in his translation of Leconte de Lisle's 'Hypatie' and in his epic The Emperor’s Reedpipe; C.P. Cavafy (1863-1933), in a number of short poems in which Neoplatonists and their cultural context appear; and in the work of the ardently Orthodox poet Zissimos Lorenzatos (1915-2004). The Platonic or Neoplatonist persons involved cover a range from Charmides to Ammonius Saccas, Chrysanthius of Sardis, Maximus of Ephesus, Proclus, and, far remote in time and place, Ibn ʿArabī .
Keywords: Neoplatonism, Plotinus, Hypatia, Proclus, Julian the Apostate, Sufism, Greek Orthodoxy
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction: ‘A Thing All Living Faces’
-
1 Neoplatonism and Poetics in Ancient Greek and Byzantine Literature -
2 Stages of Ascent: Neoplatonic Affinities in Classical Arabic Poetry -
3 What are Neoplatonic Poetics? Allegory; Figure; Genre -
4 Beauty Stings: Plotinus and Rūzbihān Baqlī on Beauty -
5 Ottoman Poetry: Where the Neoplatonic Dissolves into an Emotional Script for Life -
6 Mihrî Hatun and Neoplatonic Discourse: Legitimation of Women’s Writing in Early Modern Ottoman Poetry -
7 Poetry and Ishraqi Illuminationism among the Esoteric Zoroastrians of Mughal India -
8 Andalusian Hebrew Poems on the Soul and their Afterlife -
9 Karaite Poems about the Nature of the Soul from the Muslim East, Byzantium and Eastern Europe -
10 ‘Nostro intelletto si profonda tanto’: The Philosophical Background of Dante’s Paradiso I, 1–12 and IV, 22–60 -
11 Agathon Redivivus: Love and Incorporeal Beauty in Ficino’s De Amore, Speech V -
12 ‘A Man within a Woman, or even a God’: Vittoria Colonna and 16th-Century Italian Poetic Culture -
13 The Ascent of the Soul: Neoplatonic Themes in the Literature of Golden Age Spain -
14 The Christian Neoplatonism of Francisco de Aldana in the Carta para Arias Montano -
15 A Poetics of Difference: Neoplatonism and the Discourse of Desire in the Early Modern Spanish Love Lyric -
16 An Equivocal Echo: Eugenio Montale -
17 Eroticism of the Infinite: Neoplatonism, Kabbalism and Sufism in the Work of José Ángel Valente -
18 Body and Soul in the Arabic Literature of the Americas -
19 Neoplatonist Echoes in Modern Arabic Poetry: The Case of Muḥammad ʿAfīfī Maṭar -
20 Shards of Infinitude: Neoplatonist Relics in Modern Persian Poetry -
21 The New Image of the Beloved in the Old Mirror: Reflections on the Neoplatonic Tradition in Modern Turkish Poetry -
22 Neoplatonists in Modern Greek Poetry - Index of References to the Enneads of Plotinus
- Index of Citations from the Qur’an
- Index of Names and Places
- Index of Subjects
