The Neoplatonic Odyssey of the Soul and its Indian Cognates (second revised edition) Alexis Pinchard

https://www.academia.edu/3535852/The_Neoplatonic_Odyssey_of_the_Soul_and_its_Indian_Cognates_second_revised_edition_?rhid=43002126658&swp=rr-rw-wc-38007021&nav_from=081c073f-1b20-4e88-a24e-abf77c1d2f6d 2 But the comparison with Vedic India, based on historical linguistics and poetics, offers new perspectives. It highlights unnoticed symbolical and logical connections in this analogical symbolism, and it forces us to push backward the date when such a metaphor appeared and became a topos. Hence the Neoplatonic belief to express clearly the philosophia perennis, which was already but secretly at work in the oldest poets, seems to be more than justified. By reading Homer the Neoplatonists claimed not to build a late and artificious allegory but to reveal the true spirit of the text, hidden in its flesh: maybe this claim was right.