ABSTRACT
Synesius of Cyrene, a pupil of Hypatia, became a bishop late in life, not disguising his doubts concerning the resurrection. The hymns in which he expresses his Christian faith are impregnated with reminiscences of Plato and his followers, perhaps above all Porphyry; he is able to affirm a belief in the Incarnation and other dogmas which Porphyry repudiated, but only by modelling his Trinity on the noetic triad which had already been adopted by Marius Victorinus, and equating the resurrection with a Plotinian ascent to the One.
