Neoplatonic Demons and Angels

Neoplatonic Demons and Angels is a collection of studies which examine the place reserved for angels and demons not only by the main Neoplatonic philosophers, but also in Gnosticism, the Chaldaean Oracles and Christian Neoplatonism.

Luc Brisson is Senior Researcher (Emeritus) at CNRS, Paris. His works include How Philosophers Saved Myths (Chicago, 2004); Plato the Myth Maker (Chicago, 1999); Inventing the Universe, with W. Meyerstein (New York, 1995); Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (Berkeley, 2002), and translations and commentaries on Plato, Plotinus, Iamblichus, and Proclus. Seamus O’Neill is Associate Professor at The Memorial University of Newfoundland. His publications include “The Demonic Body: Demonic Ontology and the Domicile of the Demons in Apuleius and Augustine,” in Philosophical Approaches to Demonology, ed. R. Arp and B. McCraw (Routledge, 2017). He is currently completing a monograph on St. Augustine’s demonology. Andrei Timotin is Senior Researcher at the Romanian Academy (ISEES). His publications include La demonologie platonicienne. Histoire de la notion de daimon de Platon aux derniers neoplatoniciens (Brill, 2012); Platonic Theories of Prayer, with John Dillon (Brill, 2016); and La priere dans la tradition platonicienne, de Platon a Proclus (Brepols, 2017).