Neoplatonic demons and angels /

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Imprint:Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Description:1 online resource (ix, 294 pages.)
Language:English
Series:Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; volume 20
Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 20.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11809657
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Other authors / contributors:Brisson, Luc, editor.
O'Neill, Seamus Joseph, 1977- editor.
Timotin, Andrei, editor.
ISBN:9789004374980 (electronic bk.)
9004374981 (electronic bk.)
9789004374973
9004374973
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Other form:Online version: Neoplatonic demons and angels Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004374980
Original 9789004374973 9004374973
Table of Contents:
  • The daimon and the choice of life in Plotinus' thought / Thomas Vidart
  • The angels in ancient Gnosis : some cases / Madeleine Scopello
  • Demons and angels in the Chaldaean Oracles / Helmut Seng
  • What is a daimon for Porphyry? / Luc Brisson
  • Porphyry on the daimon, birth and the stars / Dorian G. Greenbaum
  • Daimones in Porphyry's On the cave of the nymphs / Nilufer Akcay
  • Evil demons in De mysteriis : assessing the Iamblichean critique of Porphyry's Demonology / Seamus O'Neill
  • Proclus' critique of Plotinus' Demonology / Andrei Timotin
  • The angels in Proclus : messengers of the gods / Luc Brisson
  • Ontology, henadology, angelology : the neoplatonic roots of angelic hierarchy / Ghislain Casas
  • Dionysius the Areopagite on angels : self-constitution versus constituting gifts / Marilena Vlad.