{"id":6311,"date":"2022-06-14T10:19:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T14:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/?p=6311"},"modified":"2024-05-29T16:14:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T20:14:43","slug":"persian-wisdom-eudemos-of-rhodes-on-magians-fourth-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/2022\/06\/persian-wisdom-eudemos-of-rhodes-on-magians-fourth-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Persian wisdom: Eudemos of Rhodes on Magians (fourth century BCE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Ancient authors: <\/i><\/b>Eudemos of Rhodes (fourth century BCE), as cited by Damaskios (fifth century CE), <em>Problems and Solutions concerning First Principles<\/em> 125.2 (<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books\/about\/Damascii_successoris_dubitationes_et_sol.html?id=s8YUAAAAQAAJ&amp;redir_esc=y\">link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Comments: <\/b><\/i>Eudemos of Rhodes was a student of Aristotle. Damaskios, who cites Eudemos here, was a neo-Platonist in the sixth century CE. The passage claims to present the cosmic dualism of the Magians and the Iranian people.<\/p>\n<p>\u2017\u2017\u2017\u2017\u2017\u2017\u2017<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the Magians and the entire Iranian (<em>Areion<\/em>) people, just as Eudemos also writes, some call everything that is intelligible and uni\ufb01ed \u201cPlace\u201d (<em>topos<\/em>) and others call it \u201cTime\u201d (c<em>hronos<\/em>). From this either a good god and an evil lower spirit (<em>daimon<\/em>) have separated. or light and darkness have separated before these, as some say. However, they also posit, after the undifferentiated nature, the existence of a double series of higher beings of which Ahura Mazda (<em>Oromasdes<\/em>) controls one and Angra Mainyu (<em>Arimanios<\/em>) the other.<\/p>\n<p>\u2017\u2017\u2017\u2017\u2017\u2017\u2017<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Source of translation: <\/i><\/b>Translated by Harland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient authors: Eudemos of Rhodes (fourth century BCE), as cited by Damaskios (fifth century CE), Problems and Solutions concerning First Principles 125.2 (link). Comments: Eudemos of Rhodes was a student of Aristotle. Damaskios, who cites Eudemos here, was a neo-Platonist in the sixth century CE. The passage claims to present the cosmic dualism of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,224,299,296,149,94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-04-greeks-on-wise-barbarians-noble-savages","category-d-eastern-peoples","category-ancient-ethnography-ethnographic-culture","category-ethnicity-ancient-world","category-eudemos-of-rhodes-greek","category-persians-iranians-magians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6311"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21171,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6311\/revisions\/21171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philipharland.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}