Demons of Ancient Greece
We explore the Ancient Greek concept of Daemons and regale you with accounts of plague demons, child snatchers and possessors from the long-ago world.
Our next videos will be on Ghosts of Ancient Greece and Witchcraft in Ancient Greece.
References and Further Reading
Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman World by Daniel Ogden.
Plato, Sophist 252c
Lucan, Philopseudes 16
Philostratus, Life of Apollonius
Aelius Aristides Panahenaicus 102.5
Statius, Thebaid 1.597-604
Gervase of Tilbury, Otia Imperiala 3.85-6