The Realm of Angels and Demons

The Realm of Angels and Demons is a cultural-historical journey through the beliefs, myths, philosophical ideas, and literary traditions of the ancient world. Beginning in ancient Iran, the book follows ideas and motifs as they develop, intersect, and reappear across different cultures, from the Iranian world to Greece and Rome and beyond.

Rather than treating these traditions in isolation, the book explores their connections: shared roots and recurring ideas, but also the differences that distinguish one cultural tradition from another. It examines how human beings across different societies imagined the forces of good and evil, the fate of the soul, the structure of the cosmos, and humanity’s place within it.

Drawing on historical sources, mythology, philosophy, and literature, the book seeks to make this complex cultural heritage accessible to the general reader while preserving the individuality of the traditions it explores.