This monograph revisits one of the most debated aspects of
Dionysian scholarship: the enigma of its authorship. To establish
the identity of the author remains impossible. However, the
legitimacy of the attribution of the corpus to Dionysius the
Areopagite should not be seen as an intended forgery but rather as
a masterfully managed literary device, which better indicates the
initial intention of the actual author. The affiliation with
Dionysius the Areopagite has metaphorical and literary
significance. Dionysius is the only character in the New Testament
who is unique in his conjunction between the apostle Paul and the
Platonic Athenian Academy. In this regard this attribution, to the
mind of the actual author of the corpus, could be a symbolic
gesture to demonstrate the essential truth of both traditions as
derived essentially from the same divine source. The importance of
this assumption taken in its historical context highlights the
culmination of the formation of the civilized Roman-Byzantine
Christian identity.
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