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For example, the heroine Alcestis in 438 BCE Athenian tragedy by the Greek Euripides, is reported as a "blessed daemon" subsequent to her death. [ 7 ] According to psychologist Carl Jung there is not eudaemon or else cacodaemon but only the daemon, which is a unique independent spirit neither good nor bad, living in everyone.
Gaius Valerius Eudaemon was a Roman eques who held a number of military and civilian positions during the reigns of the Emperors Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, which includes praefectus of Roman Egypt. He is known as a close friend of the emperor Hadrian.
[4] Criosphinx: a creature with the head of a ram and the body of a lion. [4] Hieracosphinx: a creature with the head of a hawk and the body of a lion. [4] Stymphalian birds: man-eating birds with beaks of bronze and sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims. Tarandos: a rare animal with the size of an ox and the head of a deer.
In terms of its etymology, eudaimonia is an abstract noun derived from the words eû (good, well) and daímōn (spirit or deity). [2]Semantically speaking, the word δαίμων (daímōn) derives from the same root of the Ancient Greek verb δαίομαι (daíomai, "to divide") allowing the concept of eudaimonia to be thought of as an "activity linked with dividing or dispensing, in a good way".
New developments in trade during the 1st century AD led to traders avoiding the middlemen of Eudaemon and making the dangerous direct crossing of the Arabian Sea to the coast of India. Arabia Felix is the title of the 1962 book by Danish novelist Thorkild Hansen , detailing a disastrous scientific expedition to the area led by Carsten Niebuhr ...
One of the first applications of laser-stimulated fluorescence in anthropology, the tattoos contain lines only 0.1 millimeter wide.
The list in the Bibliotheca [1] preserves not only the names of brides and grooms, but also those of their mothers. A lot was cast among the sons of Aegyptus to decide which of the Danaids each should marry except for those daughters born to Memphis who were joined by their namesakes, the sons of Tyria.
The opposite of a cacodemon is an agathodaemon or eudaemon, a good spirit or angel. The word cacodemon comes through Latin from the Ancient Greek κακοδαίμων kakodaimōn, meaning an "evil spirit", whereas daimon would be a neutral spirit in Greek. It is believed to be capable of shapeshifting. [1]