The book consists of articles written at different times and for different reasons, but equally inaccessible to a wide range of lovers and connoisseurs of the history of ancient culture. The studies included in the collection cover ancient Greek culture, expressed primarily in myth and symbol, from ancient times, from Homer and the Orphic cosmogonies, to the 5th century. n. e., Proclus and Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. All articles presented in the collection are based on an exhaustive study of texts spanning an entire millennium. Ancient Greek culture from its very origins appears to be permeated with myth-thinking and myth-making, and late antiquity turns out to be unthinkable without the symbolic exploration of the world. Contents: A few necessary comments

A.F. Losev. Pallas Athena

The term “symbol” in ancient Greek literature

On the ancient Greek understanding of personality based on the term soma

Fate as an aesthetic category (about one idea of A.F. Losev)

Nature and chance as stylistic principles of neo-Attic comedy

Life as a stage play in the view of the ancient Greeks

Ionian and Attic understanding of the term “history” and related concepts him

Hellenistic understanding of the term “history” and related ones

Classical and Hellenistic idea of beauty in reality and art

Mythological origin of the poetic tropes of Homer’s “Illiad”

Plato’s myth as real and imaginary

The artistic and symbolic meaning of Porfiry’s treatise “On the Cave of the Nymphs”

Porfiry “On the Cave of the Nymphs”, trans. A.A. Tahoe-Godi

The stylistic meaning of chthonic mythology in the “Argonautica” of Apollonius of Rhodes

Eurinome and Ophion

Aesthetic tendencies in Proclus’s comments to Plato’s “Timaeus”

Hymnography of Proclus and its artistic specificity

Croclus. Commentary on Plato's "Republic"

Hymnographic ekeomyastic tendencies in late antique prose

Robert Graves - mythologist-poet

A.F. Losev. Philosophy of culture and antiquity

Ancient culture (brief bibliography)