Professor Aaron Johnson, Dept. of Humanities, Lee University, Cleveland TN: Some (unnoticed) Etruscan demons
Prof. Johnson, an alumnus of Colorado Classics, is internationally recognized as a leading expert in late antiquity. In this talk, he will investigate the Platonist philosopher Porphyry of Tyre, who made wide-ranging contributions to the discourses of philosophy and religion in the third century CE. Porphyry’s work on daemons was a key element of his philosophical project. Two related fragments from his lost Commentary on Plato’s Timaeus provide illuminating material that has yet to find any consideration in discussions of late antique daemonology and pagan theology. They offer an important supplement to our understanding of Porphyry’s philosophical translation of late antique religious phenomena.
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