Azone ( el, Άζωνοι) is a term in

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anciently applied to

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s and goddesses that were not the private divinities of any particular country or people. Azones were acknowledged as deities in every country, and worshipped in every nation. The word is etymologically derived from

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for "without" and "country". The azones were to a degree above the visible and sensible deities, which were called ''zonei'' ( el, Ζωναίοι), who inhabited some particular part of the world, and never stirred out of the district or zone that was assigned them. The Greek philosopher

Damascius Damascius (; grc-gre, Δαμάσκιος, 458 – after 538), known as "the last of the Athenian Neoplatonists," was the last scholarch of the neoplatonic Athenian school. He was one of the neoplatonic philosophers who left Athens after laws ...

discusses the azones in his commentary on Plato's '' Parmenides''.

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