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On the Cave of the Nymphs in the Odyssey

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On the Cave of the Nymphs in the Odyssey (Ancient Greek: Περὶ τοῦ ἐν Ὀδυσσείᾳ τῶν νυμφῶν ἄντρου; Latin: De Antro Nympharum) is a treatise by the Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry. It is an exegesis of a passage from Homer's Odyssey, which Porphyry interprets as an allegory about the cosmos and the soul.

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Philosophers who discussed On the Cave of the Nymphs in the Odyssey

• Porphyry of Tyre
• Pherecydes of Syros

Related ideas

• Athena
• Gnosticism
• Homer
• Odyssey
• Plato
• Neoplatonism
• Greek mythology
• Numenius of Apamea
• Roman Empire
• Exegesis
• Plotinus
• Enneads
• Zoroaster
• Porphyry of Tyre
• Allegory of the cave
• Religious cosmology

Place in the tradition

Part of Myth.

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