In Plato’s Symposium, something intermediate between the human and the divine, although in previous Greek thought just the divine, not personalized as any one particular God. The need for intermediaries between the sublunar world of change and happenstance, and the supralunary or timeless celestial world, becomes a staple of Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism, and is represented in Christianity by intermediaries such as saints and angels. A daimon can also refer to one’s self, or an aspect of oneself: this is the usage that survives in phrases like ‘Van Gogh’s artistic demon’.