Mensajero, nuntius y ánguelos en la mitología grecolatina y en el convivio de Dante Alighieri
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The title implies divinities and intermediate beings who fulfill the mediating function between gods and men: a) Angelos: messenger or announcer among the Greeks; it encompasses animal, human and celestial beings (these with their own identity); b) Daimoon: beings of more complex configuration, intermediate between gods and men, although they also differ from other mediators such as heroes; c) Genius: in Rome, intermediate divinities that diversify their spheres of protection, more easily homologated by their function to the Christian angelus. The article presents an analysis of similarities, differences and characterization in some important authors; assimilation to the Hellenistic Jewish world and then to the Christian one in the St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica, where the semantics of angelus entails the result of the three words, to finally reach Dante’s Convivio.
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