Abstract
This article draws attention to the section of the Tabula mundi of John of Gaza including the description of Ocean with the bull and the ketos , Bythos and the Phylax (1.272-314). Specifically, it focuses on the evolution of the figure and concept of bythos , both from an iconographical and a literary point of view. Via the Chaldean Oracles, the concept assumed a double connotation among the Neoplatonic philosophers: in a negative meaning it is associated with matter; in a positive one it is linked with a noetic dimension. The paper argues that, in John’s description, this resemantization plays an important role, in the representation of Bythos ascending from matter to the divine light.
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