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DEMIURGE (Gr. S'quovpyos, from Si7µeos, of or for the See also:people, and Epyov, See also:work) , a handicraftsman or See also:artisan. In See also:Homer the word has a wide application, including not only See also:hand-workers but even heralds and physicians. In See also:Attica the demiurgi formed one of the three classes (with the See also:Eupatridae and the geomori, georgi or agroeci) into which the See also:early See also:population was divided (cf. Arist. See also:Ath. Pol. xiii. 2). They represented either a class of the whole population, or, according to Busolt, a commercial See also:nobility (see EUPATRIDAE). In the sense of " worker for the people " the word was used throughout the Peloponnese, with the exception of See also:Sparta, and in many parts of See also:Greece, for a higher See also:magistrate. The demiurgi among other officials represent See also:Elis and See also:Mantineia at the treaty of See also:peace between See also:Athens, See also:Argos, Elis and Mantineia in 420 B.C. (Thuc. v.

47). In the Achaean See also:

League (q.v.) the name is given to ten elective See also:officers who presided over the See also:assembly, and See also:Corinth sent " Epidemiurgi " every See also:year to Potidaea, officials who apparently answered to the Spartan harmosts. In See also:Plato 8bµuovpy6s is the name given to the " creator of the See also:world " (See also:Timaeus, 40) and the word was so adopted by the Gnostics (see See also:GNOSTICISM).

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