par Van Liefferinge, Carine 
Référence Revue de l'histoire des religions, 229, 4, page (479-501)
Publication Publié, 2012
Référence Revue de l'histoire des religions, 229, 4, page (479-501)
Publication Publié, 2012
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | By their nature and the place which they occupy, the Homeric Sirens appear as ambiguous beings. It is precisely this characteristic which assigned them a place in philosophical discourse, particularly in Plato's. In the myth of Er in the Republic, he uses their ambiguous nature to insert a strange astronomical excursus into an eschatological theory. This ambiguity will be defi nitively removed by Proclus. He overinterprets the Platonic text, which, according to him, reveals three kinds of Sirens, celestial, terrestrial and subterranean. In this way, he fi nds cohesion within the Platonic text, reconciling it with the myth, and shedding light on it by means of the theurgical ritual as did Iamblichus before him. |
