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	The Virtue of the Goddess Athena - Main
		ecause it was dedicated to the patron Goddess of Athens, the Parthenon is a religious monument.
		And since Athena is the Goddess of Wisdom, she would best be served by a Temple that incorporated logic and reason.
		Thus, when faced with a fearful situation, it chooses the mean, which is courage, rather than wallow in an excess of fear, which is a vice called cowardice, or proceed heedlessly and fearlessly, which is rashness.
	www.goddess-athena.org /Encyclopedia/Ethics/Virtue_m.htm (759 words)

	Arete - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arete (goddess), a Greek goddess of virtue, and a daughter of Praxidike.
		Arete, daughter of Dionysius the Elder and wife of Dion of Syracuse.
		Arete of Cyrene, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arete (195 words)

	AMystical1...The Craft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Arete is the goddess of virtue and justice, and teacher of Heracles.
		Eos was the goddess of dawn, daughter of the Titans, Hyperion and Theia, and sister of Helios and Selene.
		Eris is the goddess of discord, evil, infatuation, mischief and strife and the daughter of Zeus and Hera.
	www.amystical1.com /greekgodsgoddesses.htm (5291 words)

	Goddess Graphics - Web Design in Sacramento
		Hera is the supreme goddess of the Greeks and goddess of marriage and childbirth, and wife to Zeus.
		Eris is the goddess of discord and the daughter of Zeus and Hera.
		Nike, the winged goddess of victory, is the daughter of the fearsome river goddess Styx and the sister of Zelos ("zeal").
	www.goddessgraphics.com /goddessstories.html (4937 words)

	Mythology - By Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Kwan Yin - goddess of compassion, mercy, childbirth, fertility.
		Kapo - goddess of abortions, childbirth, corruption, fertility.
		Ops - goddess of abundance, fertility, the harvest.
	www.theorderoftime.com /politics/cemetery/stout/h/myth-cul.htm (1760 words)

	Minor Greek Goddesses A-C (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Antheia- The Goddess of vegetation, lowlands, marshlands, gardens, blossoms, the budding earth and human love.
		Astraea- A Goddess of justice, innocence, and purity.
		Cotytto- A Thracian Goddess of immodesty and debauchery.
	library.thinkquest.org /05aug/01895/minorgreekgoddessesa-c.htm (59 words)

	Mythology - By Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In the course of time, there have been changes in deities' names (or spelling of the names), or area of authority (e.g., changing from a goddess of agriculture to a goddess of love), or geographical region in which the deities were honored, or details regarding appearance and adventures, or even gender.
		Diana - goddess of chastity, childbirth, fertility, hunting, the moon, virgins, woodlands.
		Ops - goddess of abundance, fertility, the harvest.
	www.alternative-doctor.com /jamesharveystout/myth-cul.htm (1760 words)

	Arete (goddess) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arete (Greek Ἀρετή) was a minor Ancient Greek goddess of virtue, daughter of the goddess of justice Praxidike.
		She and her sister Harmonia, goddess of concord, were known jointly as the Praxidikai (Exacters of Justice).
		The only story involving Arete was originally told in the 5th century BCE by the sophist Prodicus, and concerns the early life of the hero Heracles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arete_(goddess) (226 words)

	Of Gods and Goddesses
		Cotytto the Thracian goddess of immodesty and debauchery.
		Vesta (ves'tuh) the Roman goddess of the hearth: identified with the Greek goddess Hestia.
		Persephone (puhr sef'uh nee) an ancient Greek goddess of springtime, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, abducted by Hades to be queen of the underworld.
	www.integ.com /OasysManual/misc/gods.htm (2390 words)

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		-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hera Hera is the supreme goddess of the Greeks and goddess of marriage and childbirth, and wife to Zeus.
		-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eris Eris is the goddess of discord and the daughter of Zeus and Hera.
		-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nike Nike, the winged goddess of victory, is the daughter of the fearsome river goddess Styx and the sister of Zelos ("zeal").
	www.ladyoftheearth.com /goddesses/greed-goddess.txt (1574 words)

	Greek Goddess of Agriculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Contrasting the festivals of Adonis with the solemn ones dedicated to Demeter, the goddess of grain, he reveals the former as a parody and negation of the institution of marriage.
		Harmonia (Greek goddess) - In Greek mythology, Harmonia is the goddess of harmony and concord.
		She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Goddess of the powerful connections between ancient and contemporary art, between the Goddess in the art and in the earliest scratched notes in Linear B graffiti at Mycenaean Pylos.
	de77.maurydigest.com /greekgoddessofagriculture.html (1283 words)

	Greek Heroes
		Eris is the goddess of discord and the spirit of strife, and the daughter of Zeus and Hera.
		Hera is the Goddess of Marriage and Birth, and the wife of Zeus.
		Goddess of the spring, she was the eldest and most beautiful of the Pleaide sisters.
	www.janih.com /kitiana/greek/glossary.html (2912 words)

	Book VII. Homer. 1909-14. The Odyssey. The Harvard Classics
		Then the goddess, grey-eyed Athene, answered him saying: ‘Yea now, father and stranger, I will show thee the house that thou bidst me declare, for it lies near the palace of my noble father; behold, be silent as thou goest, and I will lead the way.
		Thou shalt find the queen first in the halls; Arete is the name whereby men call her, and she came even of those that begat the king Alcinous.
		And Odysseus cast his hands about the knees of Arete, and then it was that the wondrous mist melted from off him, and a silence fell on them that were within the house at the sight of him, and they marvelled as they beheld him.
	www.bartleby.com /22/7.html (3063 words)

	Goddess of Gloom HVS 5a, 5a, 5a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Climbing: Goddess of Gloom HVS 5a, 5a, 5a
		The father and son team on Moonraker were taking such an eternity uncoiling their ropes that we decided to partake of other fayre : Goddess of Gloom...
		There didn't seem to be any strife as he made that daunting pull out of the corner and onto the juggy arete.
	willerup.com /climbing/goddess.html (2049 words)

	Goddess
		Most important as a mother goddess and as a goddess of love, Ishtar was the source of all the generative powers in nature and mankind.
		A.D. The functions of many goddesses were attributed to her, so that eventually she became the prototype of the beneficent mother goddess, the bringer of fertility and consolation to all.
		Demeter, in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of harvest and fertility; daughter of Kronos and Rhea.
	www.angelfire.com /wa3/ladyaurora/goddess.htm (5235 words)

	The Labyrinth on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The cult of the Labyrinth (Labris cult) is initiated in Asia Minor inhabited by matrifocal tribes as the cult of Mother Goddess.
		In the Crete-Minoan Civilization the cult of the Labris and The Mother Goddess is initiated with the cult of the Labyrinth and Ariadne.
		Arete is the tread that Ariadne gives Theseus so he could find his way out of the Labyrinth.
	flickr.com /photos/pentimento/25631600 (563 words)

	PRAXIDICAE : Greek goddesses of exacting justice ; mythology : PRAXIDIKAI
		THE PRAXIDIKAI (or Praxidicae) were three goddesses or spirts (daimones) of exacting justice.
		In the Orphic Hymns Praxidike was identified with Persephone, Soter with Zeus, and her daughters the Praxidikai with the three goddess Erinyes.
		Aulis.) She was one of the goddesses who watched over oaths under the name of praxidikai.
	www.theoi.com /Daimon/Praxidikai.html (833 words)

	The Mind's Eye: Three Psionic Vestiges
		Arete, a powerful psion who sought immortality, created a new race but doomed himself to never-ending rebirths.
		Special Requirement: Arete does not like to be reminded that the elan are considered abominations by some, and he does not answer your summons if you are already bound to Chupoclops or Eurynome.
		Gorn, the god of knowledge; Rujsha, the goddess of justice; and Mintar, the god of battle, were the last three gods of the mystics, and they found themselves losing all their worshipers to shadows.
	www.wizards.com /default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20070119a&dcmp=ILC-RSSDND (2161 words)

	H-SC Departmental Honors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Greek goddess of victory, Niké, also embodied the idea of perfection through victory, because her presence signified the attainment of aretê.
		When both these symbolic meanings of the goddess were combined, her presence in art could have humbled overly haughty victors by reminding them to avoid hubris because their good fortune would eventually fall by means of vicissitude.
		This essay describes the goddess as she appears in ancient literature and art, while showing the relationship of the goddess to such Greek ideas as aretê, vicissitude, and hubris.
	www.hsc.edu /academics/honors/programs/depthonors/abstracts03/stracke.html (237 words)

	ARETE : Greek goddess or spirit of virtue & valour ; mythology : VIRTUS
		ARETE was the goddess or spirit (daimon) of virtue, excellence, goodness and valour.
		The one [Arete] was fair to see and of high bearing; and her limbs were adorned with purity, her eyes with modesty; sober was her figure, and her robe was white.
		Meantime the other [Arete] had drawn near, and she said: 'I, too, am come to you, Herakles: I know your parents and I have taken note of your character during the time of your education.
	www.theoi.com /Daimon/Arete.html (1817 words)

	The Greek Goddesses - Aceso through Eutychia
		She was the daughter of Epione and Asclepius (the main healer dude) and was worshipped with the rest of her family in Epidauros.
		Ananke was the Goddess of Fate and Necessity.
		She was the Goddess of the Harvest or the Goddess of the Fields and she's definitely important enough to have her own page.
	www.paleothea.com /MinorsA-E.html (3997 words)

	Hippolytus, U. of Saskatchewan
		Persephone was the daughter of the grain goddess Demeter and was married to Hades, god of the underworld.
		Sophocles is often said to be the most "Homeric" of the Athenian playwrights in outlook and particularly in his approach to characterization; for all of the importance placed upon the gods in his plays, however, they appear on stage relatively infrequently.
		The play is introduced by Aphrodite, goddess of sex; its resolution is effected by the appearance of Artemis, the chaste huntress, near the end.
	homepage.usask.ca /~jrp638/CourseNotes/Hipp.html (3531 words)

	Goddess Greek Hair Piece Warrior (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Arete (goddess) - Arete (Greek) was a minor Ancient Greek goddess of virtue, daughter of the goddess of justice Praxidike.
		Triple Goddess - In ancient Indo-European mythologies, various goddesses or demi-goddesses appear as a triad, either as three separate beings who always appear as a group (the Greek Moirae, Charites, Erinnyes and the Norse Norns) or as a single deity who is commonly depicted in three aspects (The Greek Hecate).
		Lock of hair - A lock of hair is a piece or pieces of hair that has been cut from a human head, most commonly bunched or tied together in some way.
	hairstyle.vvvvvv3.com /goddessgreekhairpiecewarrior.html (172 words)

	Greek Gods A-D
		Son of Erebus (The dark region of the underworld through which the dead must pass before they reach Hades) and Nyx (She was the goddess of night), and the brother of Hemera (she was the representation of day).
		She was a minor goddess of folly, moral blindness, rashness, infatuation, sudden impulses, evil, mischief, discord and strife.
		Goddess of the earth, caves, the natural world and its formation, wild beasts, dominion over wild animals, dark magick and revenge.
	members.tripod.com /~onespiritx/gods13.htm (1045 words)

	Greek Goddess of Agriculture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Demeter Dêmêtêr (or Demetra) (DEH-MEH-ter) ("goddess mother" or "barley mother") is the Greek world: there were sites at Eleusis, in Sicily, Hermion, in Crete, Megara, Celeae, Lerna, Aegila, Munychia, Corinth, Delos, Priene, Akragas, Iasos, Pergamon, Selinus, Tegea, Thorikos, Dion, Lykosoura, Mesembria, Enna, Samosthrace She was associated with the title Melissa.
		Demeter Dêmêtêr (or Demetra) (DEH-MEH-ter) ("goddess mother" or "barley mother") is the Greek world: there were sites at Eleusis, in Sicily, Hermion, in Crete, Megara, Celeae, Lerna, Aegila, Munychia, Corinth, Delos, Priene, Akragas, Iasos, Pergamon, Selinus, Tegea, Thorikos, Dion, greek goddess of agriculture.
		She and her daughter Persephone were the central figures of the Eleusinian mysteries that also predated the greek goddess of agriculture.
	go21.maurydigest.com /greekgoddessofagriculture.html (1207 words)

	The Odyssey, Book VII
		Her name is Arete, and she comes of the same family as her husband Alcinous.
		Arete was the first to speak, for she recognized the shirt, cloak, and good clothes that Ulysses was wearing, as the work of herself and of her maids; so she said, "Stranger, before we go any further, there is a question I should like to ask you.
		Then Arete told her maids to set a bed in the room that was in the gatehouse, and make it with good red rugs, and to spread coverlets on the top of them with woollen cloaks for Ulysses to wear.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/avp/cas/ashp/homer_VII.html (5445 words)

	The Xaviant Religion
		She is often depicted as a solitary goddess and whenever there is a painting with her in it she is placed outside of any groups shown in the picture.
		She is often the goddess that finds out the truth behind the darkness and it pains her that she must speak the truth to others.
		She is often seen as the Goddess of the Waters, because in the Myth of Dark Days she made the waters her safe haven.
	www.santharia.com /religions/religion_xaviant.htm (3555 words)

	The Odyssey Page
		Twin sister of Apollo; goddess of the moon and hunt.
		Daughter of Zeus; goddess of wisdom, craft and the skills of war.
		Sister of Zeus; goddess of the earth and foison.
	www.uwf.edu /english/lanier/Odysy.html (762 words)

	Arete (excellence) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Arete (Greek: ἀρετή, pronounced in English [ˈærəteɪ]) in its basic sense means "goodness" or "excellence" of any kind.
		In Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, arete is mainly used of heroes and nobles and your mobile dexterity, with special reference to strength and courage, but it isn't limited to this.
		Arete was also the name of King Alcinious' wife.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arete_(excellence) (614 words)

	Arete I
		Out of the corner of his eye, he watched as she gave him a long look before she got back on her horse and left.
		Arete returned to the village almost every other week thereafter.
		They didn't think she would live, but the goddess smiled on her.
	tiltedworld.com /memcc/highlander/stories/arete1.htm (1669 words)

	Notes on Nicomachean Ethics Book V
		An understanding of what 'dike' meant to the ancient Greeks can provide some hints as to why dikaiosune would be so central to a discussion of arete, especially in arete's relation to the question of how to maintain a society that would foster the kinds of lives we would value.
		Dike the goddess enforces dike, enforces the overall balance of the universe as well as the balance within societies (which is ideally, or in principle, a function of the order of the universe).
		Thus to act from arete is to be dikaios and to act from dikaiosune.
	www.gmu.edu /courses/phil/ancient/nev.htm (1722 words)

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