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<p>The people of the late ancient Mediterranean world thought about and encountered gods, angels, demons, heroes, and other spirits on a regular basis. These figures were diverse, ambiguous, and unclassified and were not ascribed any clear or stable moral valence. Whether or not they were helpful or harmful under specific circumstances determined if and what virtues were attributed to them. That all changed in the third century C.E., when a handful of Platonist philosophers—Plotinus, Origen, Por

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Author
Marx-Wolf, Heidi
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9780812247893
Category
religious
Subjects
Religion, Spirituality, History
Updated
2026-03-25

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