S 3 ep 2: Neoplatonic Demonology & Texas Brisket

This episode is all about non-Christian, Greek-philosophical perspectives on demons and their role in the universe that were developing around the formative stages of Christian theology. Neoplatonism would go on to influence late-ancient and medieval Christianity and so we start to track its effects in this episode.

Neoplatonic Demons and Angels, ed. Luc Brisson

Plotinus, Enneads

Porphyry, On Abstinence from Animal Food, Bk. 2

“Iamblichus” by Riccardo Chiaradonna & Adrien Lecerf at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

“Plotinus” by Lloyd Gerson at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

“Porphyry” by Eyjólfur Emilsson at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy