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Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Ideas

    Daimôn

    idea · 3 works · 11 mentions · 19 anchored passages

    daimôn · daimon · good daimon · a fate that will doom you · divinity [daimôn] · evil daimon · the daimon

    in the texts

    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    A vague divine or supernatural power invoked to explain otherwise inexplicable events, such as Odysseus's transformation and his safe return home.

    but some daimôn has conveyed him home in spite of us.
    chapter 16
    "You are not my father, but some daimôn is flattering me with vain hopes that I may grieve the more hereafter;
    chapter 16
    As it is, I am oppressed with care, and with the afflictions which a daimôn has seen fit to heap upon me.
    chapter 19

    IliadClassical · Greek

    The Greek concept of a personal doom or divine fate threatened by Hektor against Diomedes.

    neither shall you carry off our wives in your ships, for I shall give you, with my own hand, a fate [ daimôn] that will doom you.
    chapter 8
    She wrapped her mantle about her and went in silence, following the divinity [ daimôn] and unnoticed by the Trojan women.
    chapter 3
    Who knows but with the help of a daimôn you may talk him over, for it is good to take a friend's advice.
    chapter 11

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    The governing power or master-principle of a person's life, here reinterpreted as the political ruler or leader who directs a people's fortunes.

    And this man, perhaps, it is fitting for neither the Carthaginians nor the Romans to call their good daimon.
    oration 25
    and the kings and the tyrants, and likewise the masters of slaves, all who, having laid down silver or by some other means, have come to possess a man.
    oration 25
    And do you suppose this thing—that which is master of each, which you call the daimon—to be in the man himself, or to be something external, ruling and lord over the man?
    oration 25