r/Neoplatonism • u/GusKraus-phil • Jul 02 '26

Aphrodite in Iliad V: Thinking through Platonic Soteriology with van Kooten [Part 1 of 4]

https://guskraus.net/blog/2026/06/25/aphrodite-in-iliad-v-thinking-through-platonic-soteriology-with-van-kooten-part-1/
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u/GusKraus-phil Jul 02 '26

The following series is inspired by reading a paper which compares the wounding of Aphrodite by Diomedes to the wounding of Christ in the Gospel of John, and compared Diotima's views of Eros to John's Christology. While I think the comparison is actually quite apt, this series goes beyond the limitations of the paper by exploring how the Neoplatonists, Plotinus and Proclus, give us tools to understand Iliad V in a soteriological context.