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Introduction : the genealogy of the symbolic
Symbols and riddles : allegorical reading and the boundaries of the text
Beginnings to 300 B.C.E. : meaning from the void of chance and the silence of the secret
From the head of Zeus : the birth of the literary symbol
Swallowed children and bound gods : the diffusion of the literary symbol
300 B.C.E.-200 C.E. : the symbol as ontological signifier
Iamblichus and the defense of ritual : talismanic symbols
Moonstones and men that glow : Proclus and the talismanic signifier
Epilogue : symbol traces : post-Proclean theories.
Symbols and riddles : allegorical reading and the boundaries of the text
Beginnings to 300 B.C.E. : meaning from the void of chance and the silence of the secret
From the head of Zeus : the birth of the literary symbol
Swallowed children and bound gods : the diffusion of the literary symbol
300 B.C.E.-200 C.E. : the symbol as ontological signifier
Iamblichus and the defense of ritual : talismanic symbols
Moonstones and men that glow : Proclus and the talismanic signifier
Epilogue : symbol traces : post-Proclean theories.