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Long description: Das Höhlengleichnis des großen Philosophen der Griechen Platon ist allgemein bekannt, es wurde zu dem Vorbild für sechs weitere Höhlengleichnisse aus Antike und byzantinischem Mittelalter. Während das von Aristoteles noch relativ bekannt ist, gilt das für die fünf weiteren Höhlengleichnisse nicht mehr. Der vorliegende Band enthält die Urtexte der sieben Höhlengleichnisse mit deutscher Übersetzung, jedes einzelne Gleichnis wird genau interpretiert. Thema des letzten Kapitels ist die Weiterwirkung bis in das 20. Jahrhundert hinein; es werden zum Beispiel die Anspielungen bei Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Clive Staples Lewis oder Luigi Pirandello zitiert und erläutert. Den Abschluß bilden die kurzen Worte des Begründers der neuzeitlichen Philosophie, René Descartes, zum Wesen der Höhle. So erschließt der Band das literarische Genus der Höhlengleichnisse über einen Zeitraum von rund 2 500 Jahren europäischer Geistesgeschichte. Biographical note: Wilhelm Blum, Dr. phil., Jahrgang 1943, hat Klassische Philologie, Geschichte und Philosophie studiert. Anschließend war er tätig in der Erwachsenenbildung, an der Universität und an Gymnasien. Derzeit ist er Lehrer am Maximiliansgymnasium in München. Er ist Autor zahlreicher Bücher und Aufsätze zu verschiedenen Themen der Geistesgeschichte.

Plato's cave (Allegory) --- Allegories.

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"March has picked up where Aesop and Don Marquis left off, prick- ing vanities and exposing antics of chronic phonies. . . . Here are damning truths about the Noblest Animal, here is vitriol without venom. richard Brough catches the full flavor in his illustrations." -New York Times Book Review

Fables. --- Didactic literature --- Exempla --- Fiction --- Homiletical illustrations --- Legends --- Literature --- Tales --- Allegories --- Parables

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Barbara Nolan contends that attitudes toward the meaning of history, prophecy, and vision developed by religious writers of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries fundamentally affected the shape of literary narrative and religious art for two centuries. In these essays, she explores some of the most important moments in this Gothic visionary perspective.The author first follows the history of Apocalypse commentaries from Bede to Alexander of Bremen, focusing particularly on twelfth-century interpretation of Revelation as a spiritual guidebook for the contemporary Christian. She shows that innovative interpretations in these texts have parallels in the cathedral art of St.-Denis and Chartres, the illuminations for later medieval illustrated Apocalypses, and the invention of new "anagogical" literary modes. Professor Nolan's close study of the Vita Nuova indicates that in his earliest work Dante used a prophetic voice and a graded series of visions to shape his conventional love story into a book of revelation. Examination of the thirteenth-century spiritual quest reveals that French writers, transforming older monastic forms, gave new importance to the process of conversion by way of vision. Pearl and Piers Plowman participate in the tradition of the spiritual quest even as Piers marks a final moment in its history.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Arts, Gothic. --- Christian art and symbolism --- Apocalyptic art. --- Gothic arts --- Arts, Medieval --- Art, Apocalyptic --- Allegories --- Symbolism in art

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Discussions of apocalyptic thought and its sources in the ancient Near East, particularly Mesopotamia, have a long scholarly history, with a renewed interest and focus in the recent decades. Outside Assyriological scholarship as well, studies of the apocalyptic give significant credit to the ancient Near East, especially Babylonia and Iran, as potential sources for the manifestations of this phenomenon in the Hellenistic period. The emphasis on kingship and empire in apocalyptic modes of thinking warrants special attention paid to the regal art of ancient Mesopotamia and adjacent areas in its potential to express the relevant notions. In this book, Mehmet-Ali Ataç demonstrates the importance of visual evidence as a source for apocalyptic thought. Focusing on the so-called investiture painting from Mari, he relates it to parallel evidence from the visual traditions of the Assyrian Empire, ancient Egypt, and Hittite Anatolia.

Time and art. --- Holy, The, in art. --- Apocalyptic art. --- Art, Ancient --- Art, Apocalyptic --- Allegories --- Symbolism in art --- Art and time --- Art --- Themes, motives.

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Spanning from the inauguration of James I in 1603 to the execution of Charles I in 1649, the Stuart court saw the emergence of a full expression of Renaissance culture in Britain. Hart examines the influence of magic on Renaissance art and how in its role as an element of royal propaganda, art was used to represent the power of the monarch and reflect his apparent command over the hidden forces of nature. Court artists sought to represent magic as an expression of the Stuart Kings' divine right, and later of their policy of Absolutism, through masques, sermons, heraldry, gardens, architecture

Art, Stuart. --- Allegories. --- Magic --- Neoplatonism. --- Alexandrian school --- Church history --- Hellenism --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Ancient --- Platonists --- Theosophy --- Magick --- Necromancy --- Sorcery --- Spells --- Occultism --- Allegory (Art) --- Exempla --- Fiction --- Homiletical illustrations --- Tales --- Fables --- Parables --- Stuart art --- Influence. --- Stuart, House of --- Art patronage.