Bernardo Guadalupe S. L. Brandão

Original title: Mística e Paidéia: O Pseudo-Dionísio Areopagita

Published in Mirabilia 4

Keywords: Christianism, Pseudo Dionysius the Areopagite, paideia, works.

The author who presents himself as Dionysius the Areopagite, the converted by Saint Paul on the Areopagus was probably a syrian monk who wrote in the late V century. This article, dicussing the contemporany attempts to find his identity and the influence on the posterior thought, interprets his writings as an attempt to assimilate the greek philosophy and paideia by christianity, representing an important moment in the process symbolized by the Saint Paul's journey to Athens.