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Daimonification in Xenocrates, Plutarch, Apuleius, and Maximus of Tyre
Litwa, Matthew
Litwa, Matthew
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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).
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Xenocrates, Plutarch, Apuleius, Maximus of Tyre, Decline of Oracles, Face in the Moon, Daimonion of Socrates, Romulus, God of Socrates, moon
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2020
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Posthuman Transformation in Ancient Mediterranean Thought : Becoming Angels and Demons
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57
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Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
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© M. David Litwa 2021
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