Panayiotis Tzamalikos, MSc, MPhil, PhD, is Professor of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His books include The Concept of Time in Origen (1991 –his Phd at the University of Glasgow, 1987); Origen: Cosmology and Ontology of Time (2007); Origen: Philosophy of History and Eschatology (2007); A Newly Discovered Greek Father – Cassian the Sabaite eclipsed by John Cassian of Marseilles (2012); The Real Cassian Revisited – Monastic Life, Greek Paideia, and Origenism in the Sixth Century (2012); An Ancient Commentary on the Book of Revelation – A critical edition of the Scholia in Apocalypsin (2013); Anaxagoras, Origen, and Neoplatonism – The Legacy of Anaxagoras to Classical and Late Antiquity (2 vols. 2016); Origen: New Fragments from the Commentary on Matthew (2020); Origen and Hellenism – The Interplay Between Greek and Christian Ideas in Late Antiquity (2022); Guilty of Genius – Origen and the Theory of Transmigration (2022); The Wisdom of Solomon and the Byzantine Reception of Origen (2023).

• CONTENTSINTRODUCTIONTensions in Late AntiquityOrigen and the GreeksThe figment ‘Christian Platonism’The ‘mind that comes from without’ (θύραθεν νοῦς)Tentative statements for mental exercise’ (γυμνασία).Rufinus’ translationGreeks on Philology, Philosophy, and TheologyCHAPTER 1: What is a daemon? CHAPTER 2: Greeks on daemonsCHAPTER 3: Angels and daemonsThe need for a systematic theoryNames and correlative activityAngels as surrogates of divinityDaemons and angels CHAPTER 4: Origen and Porphyry: a tender relationshipPorphyry and ‘certain Platonists’Symmetric and asymmetric bodiesWickedness as irrationalityRationality and human conductThe rational soul and passionsCHAPTER 5: Wrestling against daemonsCHAPTER 6: Names and correlative activityCHAPTER 7: Philosophical affinitiesCONCLUSION

This is without doubt an excellent and groundbreaking study. Author Panayiotis Tzamalikos convincingly portrays the entwined intellectual worlds of Origen and Porphyry, two major intellectual figures of late antiquity, and simultaneously demonstrates the extraordinarily advanced level of philosophical debate in this often-neglected period. This book brings the fields of late antique philosophy and patristics to life.Martin Ilert, Adjunct Professor for Eastern Christian Studies at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg