Why is it Plato? Because William of Conches had a thing for Plato. William lived around the time of the Aristotelian revival, but apparently, he wasn't quite with it.
I don't know about the original Greek version, but apparently (again), this seems to provide an early historical source for the idea of the soul to star connection. The problem is that this is a *literary* source. It is a written source, not a visual source.
WARNING: CODE SHIFT
Does the VMs express similar ideas? There seems to be evidence that it does. All those nymphs with stars. Yet there is nothing that we can read. We are now interpreting illustrations. And they certainly seem to be somewhat idiosyncratic illustrations making it more difficult to find relevant historical equivalents, shall we say. Not like medieval phlebotomy. If the VMs illustrations in some way represent ensoulment, then they are illustrations of an illusion, a personal vision, of a hypothesis based on false information. The artist would be free to present any sort of fabrication they were capable of creating - you name it. There is no comparison possible.
That being said, if the images of the ring and the cross on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are references to episodes in the life of Colette of Corbie, it turns out she is a patron saint - and you'll never guess what - okay, you guessed it.
I don't know about the original Greek version, but apparently (again), this seems to provide an early historical source for the idea of the soul to star connection. The problem is that this is a *literary* source. It is a written source, not a visual source.
WARNING: CODE SHIFT
Does the VMs express similar ideas? There seems to be evidence that it does. All those nymphs with stars. Yet there is nothing that we can read. We are now interpreting illustrations. And they certainly seem to be somewhat idiosyncratic illustrations making it more difficult to find relevant historical equivalents, shall we say. Not like medieval phlebotomy. If the VMs illustrations in some way represent ensoulment, then they are illustrations of an illusion, a personal vision, of a hypothesis based on false information. The artist would be free to present any sort of fabrication they were capable of creating - you name it. There is no comparison possible.
That being said, if the images of the ring and the cross on You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. are references to episodes in the life of Colette of Corbie, it turns out she is a patron saint - and you'll never guess what - okay, you guessed it.