What is "eudaemon"

Eudemon \Eu*de"mon\, Eudaemon \Eu*d[ae]"mon\, n. [Gr. e'y^ well, good + ? one's demon.] A good angel.
--Southey.

alt. A good or benevolent spirit. n. A good or benevolent spirit.

n. a benevolent spirit [syn: eudemon, good spirit] [ant: cacodemon]

In the 1st century BC, the Arabian city of Eudaemon (usually identified with the port of Aden) was a transshipping port in the Red Sea trade. The city and surrounding country were the Latin Arabia Felix. It was described in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (probably 1st century AD) as if it had fallen on hard times. Of the auspiciously named port we read in the periplus that

New developments in trade during the 1st century AD avoided the middlemen at Eudaemon and made the courageous direct crossing of the Arabian Sea to the coast of India.

Eudaemon, eudaimon, or eudemon in Greek mythology was a type of daemon or genius (deity), which in turn was a kind of spirit. A eudaemon was regarded as a good spirit or angel, and the evil cacodaemon was its opposing spirit.

Eudaemon was an ancient city in Arabia.

Eudaemon or Eudaimonia may also refer to:

• Eudaemon (mythology), a type of daemon in Greek mythology
• Eudaimonia, a concept in Aristotelian ethics and political philosophy
• Eudaemons, a 1970s group of physicists named after the Aristotelian concept
• Eudaemonia (moth), a genus of moths native to sub-Saharan Africa