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- The Vision of Dorotheus or Dorotheos (Ancient Greek: Όρασις Δωροθέου, romanized: Órasis Dorothéou) is an autobiographical Homeric Greek poem, composed in 343 lines of dactylic hexameter and attributed to "Dorotheus, son of Quintus the Poet". The poem chronicles a vision, wherein the author is transported to the Kingdom of Heaven and finds himself in its military hierarchy. He is conscripted into and deserts his post, only to receive punishment, be forgiven, and rediscover his Christian faith. The poem, penned sometime in the 4th-century, depicts the Kingdom of Heaven in an Imperial fashion; Christ is enthroned as a Roman emperor, surrounded by angels bearing Roman military and official titles (such as domestikos, praipositos, primikerios, and ostiarios), with the military structures of the Kingdom of Heaven modelled on those of Rome. The Vision of Dorotheus survives as one of the earliest examples of Christian hexametric poetry. While the Vision's poetic merit has been criticised, its poet being described by as having been "satisfied with a superficial epic varnish" and its faults denoting "an amateur who had not received a solid academic training"; the value of its insight into early Christianity has been noted, claiming that such a text "should arouse a burning interest", "even in the eyes of the most superficial reader" and noting its status as a "unique, autobiographic early Christian poem", giving "much food for reflection to scholars in the fields of patristics, history of religion, classics, and also psychology of religion". Much scholarship has been done on the Vision, considering its meaning and its provenance. The poem is extant in a unique papyrus codex of the 4th/5th-century, as part of the Bodmer Papyri, under the signature "Papyrus Bodmer 29" in the Bodmer Library. The papyrus has taken on some damage, with its many lacunae leaving only 22 lines to survive fully. This papyrus codex of 22 folios, otherwise known as the Codex of Visions, records the Vision on 9 pages, alongside several other early Christian works. (en)
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- Marble bust, presumed to be of Hesiod. (en)
- Roman marble bust depicting Homer. (en)
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- The Greek authors Hesiod , Homer , and Apollonius of Rhodes are quoted from and stylistically echoed in The Vision of Dorotheus. At the time, these three authors were the most widely taught in Hellenic schools. (en)
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- Homer British Museum.jpg (en)
- Pseudo-Seneca BM GR1962.8-24.1.jpg (en)
- Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica, Florence, Plut. 32,16.jpg (en)
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- [...] I did not have simple clothing,
but a cloak, when I was standing at the gate as before,
was I wearing, made for me from two different sorts of linen .
I stood with an orarium wrapped around my neck
and round my legs I wore breeches rising on high.
For I also wore a glittering girdle [...] (en)
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- The Vision of Dorotheus, 329−334; translated by (en)
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- The Vision of Dorotheus or Dorotheos (Ancient Greek: Όρασις Δωροθέου, romanized: Órasis Dorothéou) is an autobiographical Homeric Greek poem, composed in 343 lines of dactylic hexameter and attributed to "Dorotheus, son of Quintus the Poet". The poem chronicles a vision, wherein the author is transported to the Kingdom of Heaven and finds himself in its military hierarchy. He is conscripted into and deserts his post, only to receive punishment, be forgiven, and rediscover his Christian faith. The poem, penned sometime in the 4th-century, depicts the Kingdom of Heaven in an Imperial fashion; Christ is enthroned as a Roman emperor, surrounded by angels bearing Roman military and official titles (such as domestikos, praipositos, primikerios, and ostiarios), with the military structures of the (en)
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- The Vision of Dorotheus (en)
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