Given the variety of speculation on world-generation, this article examines the extent to which use of the Demiurge of Plato’s Timaeus by subsequent thinkers canbe regarded as part of a coherent narrative. Although not advocating the existenceo a demiurgic “system,” demiurgy is defned in contrast to Judaeo-Christian creationand its chief characteristics are enumerated. While the Demiurge is not of majorimportance within the Old Academy, he survives within Stoic conceptions of the logos , which itself combines aspects of the technological or banausic imagery o the Demiurge, alongside infuences derived from Aristotelian biological theory. This article examines the extent to which the Stoic logos can be regarded as the ancestorol the Demiurge found in Philo of Alexandria and Plutarch, suggests reasons for the ubiquitous nature of the demiurgic motif during the first to third centuries CE, and considers the main philosophical problems that infuenced its development.