Among others, when considering the sensible world, Plotinus makes use of the image of Hades and the concept of matter. The aim of the paper is to positively re-interpret his negative metaphor of Hades as well as the negative concept of matter. The question is, whether after having accepted the delusional character of the sensible world we can still claim a plausible similarity between the sensible and the intelligible. Is a valuable relationship to things and the others still to be found in such a world?
On the basis of the Francophone research in the field of visual anthropology we will try to show in this text that there was a shift between how the Ancient Greeks saw reality and how they portrayed it. We will base this examination on the second kind of mimêsis presented in Plato's dialogue, Sophist, where representation deforms the real and we represent reality not as it is, but as we want to see it. Even scenes that have a supposed guarantee of realism, the scenes of everyday life, often represent our desires or fantasies more than the reality.
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