Eudemus of Rhodes
Eudemus of Rhodes was a philosopher and follower of Aristotle in the late fourth century BC. Damascius was a Neoplatonist of the late fifth and early sixth century AD.
According to Damascius. Dubitationes et Solutiones de Principiis
125, V:
The Magi and the whole Iranian race call by the name Space or Time that which forms an intelligible and integrated whole from which a Good God and an Evil Demon were separated out, or as some say, light and darkness before these.
Ancient Sources
- The Chaldean Magi: A Library of Ancient Sources
- Ammianus Marcellinus
- Apuleius
- Arnobius
- Bardasenes
- Callisthenes
- Clement of Alexandria
- Commodian
- Ctesias
- Damascius
- Derveni Papyrus
- Dio Chrysostom
- Diodorus of Sicily
- Diogenes Laertes
- Dionysius the Areopagite
- Duris
- Emperor Julian
- Eudemus of Rhodes
- Eunapius
- Eusebius
- Firmicus Maternus
- Gregory Nazianzus
- Herodotus
- Hyppolitus
- Iamblichus
- Jerome
- Justin Martyr
- Lactantius Placidus
- Lampridius
- Lucian
- Martian
- Mithras Liturgy
- Nonnus
- Nonnus
- Origen
- Philo of Alexandria
- Philo of Byblos
- Pliny the Elder
- Plutarch
- Porphyry
- Proclus
- Quintus Curtius
- Saint Augustine
- Socrates of Constantinople
- St. Basil, Bishop of Caesarea
- Strabo
- Tertullian
- The Chaldean Oracles Attributed to Zoroaster
- Xenophon
- Zosimus of Panopolis