Daimōn como categoria relacional: um estudo etimológico

Daimōn is an ambiguous concept in Greek Religion, specially when we try do define it in opposition to theos: already in Homer the boundaries between what is considered a proper theos and a nameless and supernatural daimōn are not easy to grasp. In this study we propose an etymological study of all Greek words derived or composed from daimōn (e.g. daimonaō, deisidaimonia, daimonoblabeia, dysdaimonia, eudaimonia, etc.) in a corpus of Hellenistic authors, providing linguistic arguments to what Jonathan Smith (ANRW 2, 16, 1978) already put forward: that daimōn ought to be considered not so much as a substantive category, but as a situational or relational one.