Daimonification in Xenocrates, Plutarch, Apuleius, and Maximus of Tyre
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Litwa, Matthew. (2020). Daimonification in Xenocrates, Plutarch, Apuleius, and Maximus of Tyre. In Posthuman Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Thought : Becoming Angels and Demons pp. 57 Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108921572.006
Authors | Litwa, Matthew |
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Abstract | One of Plato’s successors, Xenocrates (395–314 BCE), envisioned the human soul as daimonic after death but still subject to fluctuating emotions. He proposed a kind of purgatory in the region below the moon. Daimones who became pure from negative affections traveled from moon to sun to become daimonic minds, ideas more fully developed by Plutarch, Apuleius of Madauros (about 124–190 CE), and Maximus of Tyre (about 180 CE). |
Keywords | Xenocrates; Plutarch; Apuleius; Maximus of Tyre; Decline of Oracles; Face in the Moon; Daimonion of Socrates; Romulus ; God of Socrates; moon |
Page range | 57 |
73 | |
Year | 01 Jan 2020 |
Book title | Posthuman Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Thought : Becoming Angels and Demons |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
Edition | 1st |
ISBN | 9781108921572 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108921572.006 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/posthuman-transformation-in-ancient-mediterranean-thought/daimonification-in-xenocrates-plutarch-apuleius-and-maximus-of-tyre/E02DEBFE39A65E54C015F110170D216C |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Supplemental file | File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
2021 | |
Online | Dec 2020 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 10 Sep 2024 |
Additional information | © M. David Litwa 2021 |
This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception |
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