Abstract
The Homeric theme of Odysseus’ journey home to Ithaca received many readings among the Platonists: Odysseus represented for them a soul that travels through the sensible world on its way back to its intelligible and divine “homeland”. This exegesis was also popular among the Gnostics (Perates, Sethians and Naassenes) and Christians (in Rome and in Alexandria). The article reviews these readings, sometimes little known, highlighting their particularities: the biblical and doctrinal themes that are added to the Platonic reading of Homer. We thus highlight the acquittance with the Platonism and its transformations outside the Platonic school.
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