Digging Holes and Building Pillars: Simeon Stylites and the “Geometry” of Ascetic Practice
In Constantine P. Cavafy's 1917 poem, “Simeon,” a young cultured aesthete (probably from Antioch), writes his friend Mebis about a recent chance encounter with the famous stylite that left him “shattered, unnerved, and aghast,” and entirely unfit to resume his sophistic career in belles lettres...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2010
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Harvard theological review
Año: 2010, Volumen: 103, Número: 4, Páginas: 447-470 |
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| Sumario: | In Constantine P. Cavafy's 1917 poem, “Simeon,” a young cultured aesthete (probably from Antioch), writes his friend Mebis about a recent chance encounter with the famous stylite that left him “shattered, unnerved, and aghast,” and entirely unfit to resume his sophistic career in belles lettres: Ah, don—t smile; for thirty-five years, think of it—winter, summer, daytime, night, for thirty-fiveyears he's been living, martyring himself, atop a pillar.Before we were born—I—m twenty-nine years old,you are, I think, younger than I am—before we were born, imagine it,Simeon climbed up that pillar.And since that time he has stayed there facing God.1 |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4517 |
| Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Harvard theological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0017816010000805 |