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In dealing with ‘daimonic power’ in the Greek religious tradition, we need to make a premise: we cannot, in fact, presume that we can reconstruct a ‘daimonology’, in the sense of a clearly defined doctrine or a coherent and final system of ideas.
The Ancient Greek: δαίμων, spelled daimon or daemon (meaning "god", "godlike", "power", "fate"), [1] [2] originally referred to a lesser deity or guiding spirit, such as the daimons of ancient Greek religion and mythology and later Hellenistic religion and philosophy. [3]
Daimonic Power. Giulia Gasparro. In dealing with 'daimonic power' in the Greek religious tradition, we need to make a premise: we cannot, in fact, presume that we can reconstruct a 'daimonology', in the sense of a clearly defined doctrine or a coherent and final system of ideas.
Rather than referring to personal anthropomorphic aspects, however, daimōn appears to correspond to supernatural power in its unpredictable, anonymous, and often frightful manifestations. So, the adjective daimonios means ‘strange’, ‘incomprehensible’, ‘uncanny’.
Having proposed the notion of diverse dynameis (powers) to which the thysia (sacriice) of man is addressed, he outlines an initial theological framework that seems to have been borrowed partially from the treatise On Sacriices by Apollonios of Tyana (see quotation in Euseb. Praep. evang. 4.12, 1, 142).
the δαιμόνιον of Socrates. This daimonic entity warns Socrates directly, as a voice, when he ought to stop what he is doing, and it guides his educational mission.5 It shows what the gods will. By “carrying over” things between men and gods, the daimōn acts as a bridge between the mundane and divine worlds.
“China and Greece: Comparisons and Insights” by Lisa Raphals similarly justifies its presence by challenging “ultimately Greek categories and taxonomies” which have dominated comparative religion studies, and includes a particularly valuable analysis of Chinese divination in relation to Greek.
