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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Main Author: Stang, Charles M. 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2010
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 2010, Volume: 103, Issue: 4, Pages: 447-470
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