Demons’ feast: Origen's "Contra celsum" VIII 30 and Porphyry's "De abstinentia" II 42-43
Ewa Osek
Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II , PolandAbstract
The paper is to compare two parallel passages: Origen Contra Celsum VIII 30 and Porphyry De abstinentia II 42-43, which both concern meat-eating demonized as “demons’ feast”, and to inquire into a cause of this parallelism. The cause was a closest personal relationship between Origen and Porphyry in the years A.D. 244-249, as well as their indebtedness in a common source, hypothetically, Origen the Egyptian who published his treatise De daemonibus before A.D. 253.
Keywords:
Origen of Alexandria (A.D. 185-255), Contra Celsum (A.D. 244- 249), Porphyry of Tyre (A.D. 233-305), De abstinentia (A.D. 270), Origen the Egyptian, De daemonibus (before A.D. 253), demonology, vegetarianismReferences
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