Abstract
Based on the dossier of texts that Marcel Detienne proposed as an appendix to his classic study of Pythagoreandemonology (1959/1963), we will attempt to identify the relationship between the various accounts of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans of the classical period (6th-4th c. BC) and the conceptions of the daimōn attested in Greek polytheism of their time. n. è.) with the conceptions of the daimōn attested in the Greek polytheism of their time - thus focusing attention more on the past and tradition, and less on the Platonic horizon of expectation. The reception and re-conceptualization of the Homeric and Hesiodic heritage will be examined, as will the revival and systematization of thegods-daimons-heroes taxonomy (and hierarchy ? ). Finally, we'll ask what Pythagorean thought's own contribution may have been to the conceptualization - plural and multifaceted - of the daimōn, still in gestation, especially in relation to the static notions of" avoir un daimōn " or " être un daimōn ", and the dynamic notion of " devenir un daimōn ".
