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as the “eighth art,” synthesizing the seven previous arts of architecture,
painting, sculpture, dance, poetry, cinema, and music in order to produce
a nal enchanted product that is more than the sum of its parts (Grant).
6.6 IAMBLICHUS AND NEO-PLATONIC MAGIC
is Wagnerian vision of multimodal ritual has its origins in much earlier,
ancient history: specically, the ancient Greek Neo-Platonist Iamblichus.
Iamblichus was a philosopher of the school of Neo-Platonism, a set of
beliefs that stemmed from the Greek philosopher Plato. At the heart of
Plato’s doctrines is a belief that the visible and ...