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Book 8, 12

Alexander the Great receives instruction from Aristotle

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Book 8, 13

Illustration of Plato's idea that only those that are good can be gods; poets having written fictions dishonourable to the goodness of gods have to be banished (poets reading and being banished); good and bad gods: Titus Latinius, a Roman peasant, lost his son and fellseriously ill as punishment for failing to inform the senate to restart the games ('Ludi Magni' in honour of Jupiter) as commanded in a dream (Titus Latinius or his son lying in bed; sacrifice of animals in honour of the gods)

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Book 8, 14

There exist three kinds of beings with a rational soul, according to Platonists like Apuleius, who writes about it in his book 'On The God of Socrates': the gods in heaven, the demons in the air and the men on earth

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Book 8, 15

Plato's four elements arranged in a symmetrical order: air (with birds) and water (with fishes) between the two extremes; these are: the motionless earth with human beings, plants and terrestrial animals, and the most mobile element: fire with devils

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Book 8, 16

Apuleius discussing his views on demons; men worshipping souls

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