Second Apology 4

But if this thought should also occur to someone, that if we confessed God as our helper we would not, as we say, be overpowered and punished by the unjust, I will resolve this too. God, having made the whole world, and subjected earthly things to men, and arranged the heavenly elements for the growth of fruits and the changes of the seasons, and appointed a divine law for them, which things also he evidently made for men, committed the care of men and of the things under heaven to angels, whom he appointed over them. But the angels transgressed this order and were overcome by intercourse with women, and begot children, who are those called demons. And besides, they then enslaved the human race to themselves: partly by magical writings, partly by fears and the punishments they brought, and partly by teaching them sacrifices and incense and libations, of which they came to be in need after they were enslaved to the passions of lust; and they sowed among men murders, wars, adulteries, licentiousness, and every evil. Hence the poets and mythologists, not knowing that it was the angels and the demons born of them who did these things to men and women and cities and nations, which they wrote about, ascribed them to God himself and to those who were thought to be his sons by seed, and to those called his brothers, Poseidon and Pluto, and likewise to their children. For they called each by the name that each of the angels had given to himself and to his children.