作者: Ed Jordan , Anisha Keshavan , Maria Luisa Mandelli , Roland Henry , Arno Klein
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摘要: In this introductory poem, the order is slightly di erent, and the ‘ re-dwellers’ have an odd position in the list, replacing the last ‘Markan’ category, the ‘lighthating’, which is presumably even deeper in the earth than the ‘sub-earthly’. e striking term misophaes had long been known to philologists, but only from the phrase ‘light-hating world’, quoted by the neo-Platonist Proklos ( h century), in his commentary on Plato’s Timaeus (III 325.32), as being from the Chaldaean Oracles ( rst or second century). en came the publication, in 1927, of a manuscript of exor cisms in Greek, copied in May 1710 and now preserved in the National Library at Athens (MS. 825).5 One of the exorcisms is labelled ‘Prayer of our holy father Ephrem of Syria’. is is the fourth-century saint whose feast the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates on 28 January. It is di cult to know how much, if any, of the exorcism is his own work, for he wrote only …