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In examining the concept of double ignorance—one’s unawareness of one’s ignorance—in the work of Olympiodorus, this chapter makes two points. First, double ignorance, and the attachment to one’s reputation and belongings which it involves, leaves room for a Socratic, mimetic pedagogy that reveals true reality as what the doubly ignorant has desired all along. Second, Olympiodorus develops the novel idea of a virtuous kind of double ignorance, in which purified souls are unaware of their ignorance of the body.