Research Catalog

Title

Neoplatonic demons and angels / edited by Luc Brisson, Seamus O'Neill, Andrei Timotin.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

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Additional Authors

• Brisson, Luc
• O'Neill, Seamus Joseph, 1977-
• Timotin, Andrei

Description

ix, 294 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

"Neoplatonic Demons and Angels is a collection of eleven studies which examine, in chronological order, the place reserved for angels and demons not only by the main Neoplatonic philosophers (Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus), but also in Gnosticism, the Chaldaean Oracles, Christian Neoplatonism, especially by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. This volume originates from a panel held at the 2014 ISNS meeting in Lisbon, but is supplemented by a number of invited papers"--

Series Statement

Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; volume 20

Uniform Title

Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 20.

Subjects

• Demonology
• Neoplatonism
• Angels

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 19-949

ISBN

• 9789004374973
• 9004374973

LCCN

2018023165

OCLC

1031947221

Title

Neoplatonic demons and angels / edited by Luc Brisson, Seamus O'Neill, Andrei Timotin.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; volume 20

Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition ; v. 20.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Brisson, Luc, editor.

O'Neill, Seamus Joseph, 1977- editor.

Timotin, Andrei, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Neoplatonic demons and angels Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004374980 (DLC) 2018040904

Research Call Number

JFE 19-949