agathos daemon

Latin noun
quoted from Greek

Last edited: 2024-06-03
Primary meaning place of the good daemon
Literal translation good daemon
Variants
agathos daemon
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place of the good daemon astrological place

11th astrological place

Dea Deus Bona fortuna ac Bonus daemon, quae a Graecis hactenus nominantur: thea, theos, agathe tyche, agathos daemon

‘Goddess, God, Good fortune, Bad fortune, which are called by the Greeks as follows: thea, theos, agathe tyche, agathos daemon’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.16.1

Genre: astrological compendium
Provenance: Sicily
Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 1.59


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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). agathos daemon (Lemma #997). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/997/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). agathos daemon (Lemma #997). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/997/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). agathos daemon (Lemma #997). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/997/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) agathos daemon (Lemma #997), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/997/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac997,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {agathos daemon ({Lemma} #997)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/997/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/997/},
}