Abstract
The seminar examined epigraphic evidence from the late Classical to early Hellenistic periods of cults to daimones, which can be referred to as " personal ". Concentrated around the Aegean and in Asia Minor, these cults may involve sacrifices to the daimon, or even to the " Good Genius " of a couple or individuals, whether living or deceased. Several of these documents have been studied. In the end, we wondered whether these geographical and chronological specificities did not conceal a broader phenomenon. The question of the origins of this " demonic " thinking inevitably remains unsolvable, but is nonetheless worth asking : how much of the " Ionian " knowledge in this field (Heraclitus, etc.) could have been involved, and can our research even take detours through other currents of thought (Persian, Anatolian, etc., and echoing in particular Rome, the subject of John Scheid's presentation, cf. infra) ?
