Abstract
At the end of the 2019 lectures, we concluded that the daimōn was an agent distributing goods and evils among men, as much as an agent manifesting one or other aspect of a god's power. These are the two complementary faces of the distributing authority that is the daimōn. From then on, the question of its alleged " cult inconsistency " arose. It is to pursue such an interrogation that this lesson sets out, through the figure of theAgathos daimōn, the " Good daimōn " as attested in the context of the sanctuary of Dionysus at Thasos, and on a series of graffiti worn on fragments of drinking vessels unearthed around the Black Sea, in Sicily and in Athens. These objects were handled after banquets, during the symposium at the opening of which wine libations to theAgathos daimōn are attested by passages from Aristophanes and the glosses they elicited. This involves an offering of pure wine, accompanied by a brief tasting of this liquid that brutally manifests the power of Dionysus, before moving on to the water-cut wine of Zeus Sōtēr, " Savior ". This dossier supports, from the ritual angle, the interpretation of the daimōn as a deity's power to act, such as the poetic texts enabled us to apprehend last year.
