1. Demons And Evil
... that daimones are really the souls of the departed. An important contribution Plutarch made to the developing Greek daemonology is the introduction of demons as intermediaries. In his dialogue On the Cessation of Oracles, Plutarch stresses that the gods communicate through daimones, who can punish the ... Hermes and Penelope. 419b-e, translated in Brenk (1986) 2119-20. The philosophical inquiry into the nature of evil and the concept of demons continued for many centuries after Plutarch with great thinkers such as Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and so on. It was through philosophical ref...
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