 Through a comparison between Julian and Proclus (see Lecerf 2012), one may conclude that Iamblichus had conceived of a variety of Demiurges, the main one (identified with Zeus) acting as a principle or “monad” for the others. While Zeus creates the world insofar as it is governed by rational laws and populated with beings pertaining to species and genera (themselves of intelligible nature), other demiurgic entities are tasked with informing matter and bodies (which undergo a process of generation and corruption) according to such laws.