#achos

Daemones are also known as Spirit Personifications. There are two kinds of Daemones, agathodaimon and kakodaimon, noble spirits and malevolent spirits, respectively. However, modern scholars and theologists have separated all of the daemones into seven broad categories:

1. Emotions and states of mind, e.g. Love and Hate, Desire, Affection, Anger, Harmony and Discord, Joy and Grief, Laughter, Hope and Fear, Indignation, and Delusion.

2. The human condition, e.g. Birth and Death, Sleep and Dreams, Pleasure and Pain, Youth and Old Age, Wealth and Poverty, Hunger and Disease, Ease and Toil, Fate and Opportunity

3. Qualities, e.g. Strength, Beauty, Grace, Wisdom, and Stupidity

4. Morality, e.g. Valor, Modesty, Moderation, Hubris, Mercy, Truth, Lies, Impiety, Justice, Oath, Respect, and Insolence

5. Voice, e.g. Eloquence, Persuasion, Criticism, Lies, Quarrels, Prayer, Counsel, Curse, Lament, Rumor, Message, Fame, Battle-Cry

6. Actions, e.g. Force, Rivalry, Victory, Labor, Contest, Fighting, Murder

7. State of society, e.g. Peace and War, Good-Governance, Law and Lawlessness, Justice and Injustice

This is part one of a fairly complete list of Daemones referenced in Greek mythology and theology, separated into each of the seven modern categories as best as I can do (I could not find a list where they were separated out, but I feel like it would be helpful if they were, so). Some of the Daemones overlap categories, so it looks like there are repeats.

Daemones of Emotions and States of Mind

Ania: Grief, sorrow, distress, trouble

Anteros: Reciprocated love

Aporia: Difficulty, perlexity, want of means

Ate: Delusion, infatuation, folly, reckless impulse, rash action

Deimus: Terror-fear, dread

Eleus: Pity, mercy, compassion

Elpis: Hope, expectation

Epiales: Nightmare

Daemones of the Human Condition

Achos: Pain of body, pain of mind, grief, distress

Algea: Pain of body, pain of mind, grief, distress, suffering

Amechania: Helplessness, want of means

Anance: Necessity, compulsion

Deimus: Terror-fear, dread

Epiales: Nightmare

Epidotes: Ritual purification

Daemones of Qualities

Adephagia: Gluttony, satiety

Aergia: Spirit of idleness, laziness, indolence, and sloth

Aglaea: Beauty, splendor, glory, magnificence, adornment

Alce: Battle-Strength, Prowess, Courage

Aletheia: Truth, truthfulness, sincerity

Anaideia: Ruthlessness, shamelessness, unforgivingness

Calleis: Beauty

Calocagathia: Nobility, nobleness, goodness

Charis: Beauty, grace, favor

Charities: Grace, favor, beauty (plural)

Coalemus: Stupidity, foolishness

Corus: Satiety, surfeit, insolence, disdain

Epidotes: Ritual purification

Epiphron: Prudence, shrewdness, carefulness, thoughtfulness, sagacity

Daemones of Morality

Aedos: Reverence, Respect, Shame, Self-Respect, Modesty

Aeschyne: Shame, sense of shame, modesty, honor

Aletheia: Truth, truthfulness, sincerity

Apate: Trick, fraud, deceit, guile, treachery

Arete: Virtue, excellence, goodness, manliness, valor

Cacia: Vice, moral badness

Calocagathia: Nobility, nobleness, goodness

Dolus: Trickery, cunning deception, craftiness, guile, treachery

Dysssebia: Impiety, ungodliness

Epiphron: Prudence, shrewdness, carefulness, thoughtfulness, sagacity

Daemones of Voice

Alala: War-cry, battle-cry

Amphilogiae: Disputes, debate, contention

Angelia: Message, tidings, proclamation

Arae: Curses, impreciations

Cydoimus: Din of battle, confusion, uproar, hubbub

Daemones of Actions

Agon: Contest, struggle

Alastor: Blood feud, vengeance

Androctasiae: Slaughter of men in battle

Ate: delusion, infatuation, folly, reckless impulse, rash action

Bia: Force, power, might, bodily strength, compulsion

Caerus: Opportunity, critical time, advantage, profit

Cydoimus: Din of battle, confusion, uproar, hubbub

Daemones of States of Society

Adicia: Injustice, Wrong-doing

Ctesius: Home, house, comestic property

Democracia: Democracy

Dicaiosyne: Justice, righteousness

Dike: Justice, rights by custom & law, righteous judgement

Dysomnia: Lawlessness, bad civil constitution

Eirene: Peace