NeoplatonicDemonsandAngels Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic Tradition Editedby RobertM.Berchman(DowlingCollegeandBardCollege) JohnFinamore(UniversityofIowa) EditorialBoard JohnDillon(TrinityCollege,Dublin)–GaryGurtler(BostonCollege) Jean-MarcNarbonne(LavalUniversity,Canada) volume 20 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/spnp Neoplatonic Demons and Angels Editedby LucBrisson SeamusO’Neill AndreiTimotin LEIDEN | BOSTON TheLibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailableonlineathttp://catalog.loc.gov LCrecordavailableathttp://lccn.loc.gov/2018023165 TypefacefortheLatin,Greek,andCyrillicscripts:“Brill”.Seeanddownload:brill.com/brill‑typeface. ISSN1871-188X ISBN978-90-04-37497-3(hardback) ISBN978-90-04-37498-0(e-book) Copyright2018byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillHes&DeGraaf,BrillNijhoff,BrillRodopi, BrillSenseandHoteiPublishing. 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Contents ListofContributors vii Introduction 1 TheDaimonandtheChoiceofLifeinPlotinus’Thought 7 ThomasVidart TheAngelsinAncientGnosis:SomeCases 19 MadeleineScopello DemonsandAngelsintheChaldaeanOracles 46 HelmutSeng WhatisaDaimonforPorphyry? 86 LucBrisson PorphyryofTyreontheDaimon,BirthandtheStars 102 DorianGieselerGreenbaum DaimonesinPorphyry’sOntheCaveoftheNymphs 140 NiluferAkcay EvilDemonsintheDeMysteriis AssessingtheIamblicheanCritiqueofPorphyry’sDemonology 160 SeamusO’Neill Proclus’CritiqueofPlotinus’Demonology 190 AndreiTimotin TheAngelsinProclus:MessengersoftheGods 209 LucBrisson Ontology,Henadology,Angelology TheNeoplatonicRootsofAngelicHierarchy 231 GhislainCasas vi contents DionysiustheAreopagiteonAngels Self-ConstitutionversusConstitutingGifts 269 MarilenaVlad Index 291 List of Contributors NiluferAkcay HoldsaPh.D.inClassicsfromtheUniversityofDublin,TrinityCollege(Novem- ber 2016). Her dissertation is the analysis of Porphyry’s On the Cave of the Nymphsagainstthebackdropofhiswiderphilosophicaloeuvre.Shewasedu- catedatIstanbulUniversitywhereshetranslatedOvid’sHeroidesintoTurkish duringherM.A.degree.Heraimistocontinuetoworkinthefieldof Neopla- tonismandancientallegoricalinterpretation. LucBrisson DirecteurdeRecherche(1eclasse)attheCentreNationaldelaRechercheSci- entifique, Paris, a member of the Centre Jean Pépin (UPR 76 du CNRS). His worksinclude HowPhilosophersSavedMyths(Chicago,2004); PlatotheMyth Maker(Chicago,1999);InventingtheUniverse,withW.Meyerstein(NewYork, 1995);SexualAmbivalence:AndrogynyandHermaphroditisminGraeco-Roman Antiquity(Berkeley,2002),amongothers,andnumeroustranslationsandcom- mentariesontheSophists,Plato,Plotinus,Proclus,andIamblichus,including (withA.Ph.Segonds)Jamblique,ViedePythagore(Paris,1996). GhislainCasas CurrentlylecturerinphilosophyattheSorbonne,Paris.HecompletedhisPh.D. attheÉcolePratiquedesHautesÉtudesandtheÉcoledesHautesÉtudesen SciencesSociales,Parison medievalangelology.He haspublishedpaperson neoplatonicandmedievalphilosophy,including“Lenéoplatonismesanspla- tonisme du ps.-Denys l’Aréopagite,” in Les chrétiens et l’hellénisme. Identités religieusesetculturegrecquedansl’Antiquitétardive,ed.ArnaudPerrot(Paris, 2012); “Les statues vivent aussi. Théorie néoplatonicienne de l’objet rituel”, Revuedel’histoiredesreligions,231/4(2014);“Languagewithoutvoice:locutio angelicaasapoliticalissue,”inVoiceandVoicelessnessinMedievalEurope,ed. I.R.Kleiman(Houndmills,2015). DorianGieselerGreenbaum Tutor at the University of Wales Trinity St David. Her Ph.D. from the War- burgInstituteformedthebasisof herbook,TheDaimoninHellenisticAstrol- ogy:OriginsandInfluence(Brill,2016).ShehaswrittenarticlesforBlackwell’s EncyclopediaofAncientHistoryandSpringer’sHandbookofArchaeoastronomy andEthnoastronomy,andedited/co-translatedthevolume, Kepler’sAstrology (Lampeter,2010).Recentpublicationsinclude(withco-editorCharlesBurnett) viii list of contributors FromMāshāʾallāhtoKepler:TheoryandPracticeinMedievalandRenaissance Astrology(Lampeter,2015);and“EternityintheAstrologyofVettiusValens,”in Eternity:AHistory,ed.YitzhakMelamed(Oxford,2016). SeamusO’Neill AssociateProfessorof PhilosophyatTheMemorial Universityof Newfound- land.HecompletedhisPh.D.inClassicsatDalhousieUniversityonSt.Augus- tine’sPlatonism.Recentpublicationsinclude:“‘Aequalesangelissunt’:Demon- ology,Angelology,andtheResurrectionoftheBodyinAugustineandAnselm,” TheSaintAnselmJournal,12/1(2016);“‘Howdoesthebodydepart?:ANeopla- tonicReadingofDante’sSuicides,”DanteStudies,132(2014);and“TheDemonic Body: Demonic Ontology and the Domicile of the Demons in Apuleius and Augustine,”inPhilosophicalApproachestoDemonology,ed.R.ArpandB.Mc- Craw(Routledge,2017).HeiscurrentlycompletingamonographonSt.Augus- tine’sdemonology,theculminationofaresearchprojectentitledReconstruct- ingtheDemonologyofSt.Augustine,fundedbytheSocialSciencesandHuman- itiesResearchCouncilofCanada. MadeleineScopello Correspondantof theInstitutdeFrance(AcadémiedesInscriptionsetBelles- Lettres),CorrespondingFellowof theAustralianAcademyof theHumanities (FAHA),Directeurderecherche(1stclass)atCentreNationaldelaRecherche Scientifique,Paris(UMR8167),Paris,Directeurd’étudesattheÉcolePratique desHautesÉtudes,Paris(chairof “GnosisandManichaeism”).Herworksin- clude L’Exégèsedel’âme(NagHammadiII,6):introduction,traduction,com- mentaire(Leiden,1985);LesGnostiques(Paris,1991,translatedinItalian,Japa- neseandCorean);L’Allogène(NagHammadiXI,3),withW.-P.Funk,P.-H.Poi- rier, J.D. Turner (Québec-Louvain, 2004); Femme, Gnose et Manichéisme. De l’espace mythique au territoire du réel (Leiden, 2005); Saint Augustin, Sur la GenèsecontrelesManichéens.SurlaGenèseausenslittéral,Livreinachevé,with A.-I.Bouton,M.Dulaey,P.Monat(Paris,2005);and LesÉvangilesapocryphes (Paris,2007and2016). HelmutSeng Associate Professor at the Universities of Konstanz and Frankfurt am Main. In2010,hewasalsodirecteurd’étudesinvitéattheÉcolePratiquedesHautes Études(Paris).Heisalsoserieseditorof theBibliothecaChaldaica.Hisworks include Untersuchungen zum Vokabular und zur Metrik in den Hymnen des Synesios(FrankfurtamMain,1996);VergilsEklogenbuch.Aufbau,Chronologie undZahlenverhältnisse(Hildesheim,1999);ΚΟΣΜΑΓΟΙ,ΑΖΩΝΟΙ,ΖΩΝΑΙΟΙ.Drei list of contributors ix BegriffechaldaeischerKosmologieundihrFortleben(Heidelberg,2009);Unlivre sacrédel’Antiquitétardive:LesOraclesChaldaïques(Brepols,2016,MédailleLe Fèvre-DeumierdePons2018oftheAcadémiedesInscriptionsetBellesLettres); aswellasnumerousarticles,mainlyonlateantiquetopics,inparticularonthe ChaldaeanOracles. AndreiTimotin SeniorresearcherattheRomanianAcademy(ISEES),AssociateProfessoratthe UniversityofBucharest,Ph.D.inHistory(ÉcoledesHautesÉtudesenSciences Sociales,Paris),Ph.D.inAncientPhilosophy(ÉcolePratiquedesHautesÉtudes, Paris).HispublicationsonthePlatonictraditionincludeLadémonologiepla- tonicienne.HistoiredelanotiondedaimōndePlatonauxderniersnéoplatoni- ciens(Brill,2012,ReinachPrizeoftheAssociationdesÉtudesGrecques,Paris); PlatonicTheoriesofPrayer,withJohnDillon(Brill,2016);andLaprièredansla traditionplatonicienne,dePlatonàProclus(Brepols,2017). ThomasVidart Teacherof PhilosophyinClassesPréparatoiresauxGrandesÉcoles(Khâgne) at the Lycée Champollion (Grenoble, France). He currently also teaches at theUniversityofGrenoble.HehastranslatedPlotinus’treatise,OnWell-Being: Plotin,Traité46,inL.BrissonetJ.-F.Pradeau(eds.),Plotin,Traités45–50(Paris, 2009). MarilenaVlad Holds a Ph.D. in sciences religieuses from École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris (2011). She coordinates a research project at the Institute for Philos- ophy “Al. Dragomir” (Bucharest), is assistant professor at the University of Bucharest,andmemberof theeditorialboardof Chôra.Revued’étudesanci- ennesetmédiévales.ShetranslatedintoRomanianthefirstpartofDamascius’ De principiis, and several treatises of Plotinus’Enneads. Recent publications include: Damascius et l’aporétique de l’ineffable (Paris, forthcoming); “Step- pingintotheVoid:ProclusandDamasciusonApproachingtheFirstPrinciple,” InternationalJournalofthePlatonicTradition11.1(2017);“Denysl’Aréopagiteet l’imagedivine:symbole,empreinte,statue,”in L’icônedanslapenséeetdans l’art, ed. by K. Mitalaité and A. Vasiliu (Brepols, 2017); and “Damascius and Dionysiusonprayerandsilence,”inPlatonicTheoriesofPrayer,ed.byJ.Dillon andA.Timotin(Brill,2016).