Posthuman transformation in ancient Mediterranean thought : becoming angels and demons / M. David Litwa.
Litwa, M. David, author.; ProQuest (Firm)
2021
B532.T73 L58 2021
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Posthuman transformation in ancient Mediterranean thought : becoming angels and demons / M. David Litwa.
Author
Litwa, M. David, author.
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9781108921572 (electronic book)
1108921574 (electronic book)
9781108843997
9781108926058
9781108915670 (electronic book)
1108915671 (electronic book)
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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©2021
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English
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B532.T73 L58 2021
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129
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: Angels, daimones, and the modern thirst for transformation
Hesiod and daimonification in the archaic and classical periods
Empedocles as daimon
Plato and the moralization of daimonification
Daimonification in Xenocrates, Plutarch, Apuleius, and Maximus of Tyre
Moses angelified in Philo of Alexandria
Origen, angelification, and the angelified Jesus
Plotinus as a living daimon
The angelification of Zostrianos
Conclusion : Advent or apocalypse?

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