... god and a mortal" (Symp. 202E) which seems to portray the same idea of an intermediate being that the Christian authors attempted to find with the word pneuma. Roman authors encountered a problem similar to that of the evangelists because the Roman vocabulary did not have an equivalent for the Greek daimon. Cicero employed lares (deified ancestors) for daimones and Apuleius tried genius (a ... Hesiod writes about the five successive races of humankind: the golden, the silver, the bronze, the heroic, and the iron. He states that the golden race lives on in the form of "benevolent daemons...

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... god and a mortal" (Symp. 202E) which seems to portray the same idea of an intermediate being that the Christian authors attempted to find with the word pneuma. Roman authors encountered a problem similar to that of the evangelists because the Roman vocabulary did not have an equivalent for the Greek daimon. Cicero employed lares (deified ancestors) for daimones and Apuleius tried genius (a ... Hesiod writes about the five successive races of humankind: the golden, the silver, the bronze, the heroic, and the iron. He states that the golden race lives on in the form of "benevolent daemons...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School