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    • All Eye: a metaphor from Ezekiel in the Desert Fathers, the School of Gaza, and Gregory 

      Sabo, Theodore (Taylor and Francis, 2015)
      Ezekiel's imagery of the four living creatures being all eye proved to be a useful metaphor for such diverse characters as the desert fathers, the ascetics of Gaza, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Gregory Palamas. This study interposes ...
    • The platonic milieu of dionysius the pseudo-areopagite 

      Sabo, Theodore; Lioy, Dan; Fick, Rikus (Sabinet, 2013)
      The Platonic milieu is the most significant of the possible milieus that can be attributed to the Proto-Hesychast Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite. The present article hypothesizes that Dionysius’ master Hierotheus was ...
    • Plotinus and Buddhism 

      Sabo, Theodore (University of Hawaii Press, 2017)
      The relationship between Plotinus and Buddhism has not been overly studied, in part because of the paucity of evidence. This article retraces some familiar terrain, enumerating parallels between the philosophy of Plotinus ...
    • The politics of the one 

      Sabo, Theodore (Classical Association of South Africa (CASA), 2015)
      Two often repeated assertions about Plotinus are that he was not interested in mathematics or politics. A recent book has clearly demonstrated his strong attraction to numbers though not necessarily mathematics, but the ...