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Nikos G. Charalabopoulos 'Natural Imagery in the Corpus Dionysiacum'

Lecture in the frame of the International Symposium 'Nature and Human Nature in Ancient Greek Philosophy and its Reception' held at the Neherlands Institute at Athens on Tuesday, October 3, 2023. Abstract It may come as no surprise that the physical world is a rarity in the literary output attributed to St Dionysius Areopagite. Neither the exposition of the orders of angels nor the taxonomy of human beings in the body of the Church seem, at first sight, the natural textual habitat for extensive mentioning of the variety of (in)animate nature. At the same time, this infrequency provides each such reference with a significance of its own. Whether it be an explanation for the use of theriomorphic similes for the manifestations of God (CH 2.4.5), the creation of plants (Ep. 9.1), or the activities of the soul (CH 2.3.4), the author seems to work with a certain number of conceptual premises – including the notion of sympatheia and the homology between human psychic microcosm and the cosmic order.