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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Arete (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Queen Arete of Scheria was a queen of the Phaeacians, wife of Alcinous and mother of Nausicaa and Laodamas.
Aja (Hindu mythology) In Hindu mythology, Aja is one of the descendants of the Dasaratha...
Lima (mythology) In Roman mythology, Lima was the goddess of thresholds.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Arete-(mythology)   (224 words)

  
  Mythology
Aja (Hindu mythology) In Hindu mythology, Aja is one of the descendants of the Dasaratha...
Cuba (mythology) In Roman mythology, Cuba was the goddess of infants.
Lima (mythology) In Roman mythology, Lima was the goddess of thresholds.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/mythology.html   (3498 words)

  
 arete   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Arete (paideia) is an Ancient Greek virtue, meaning "excellence".
Queen Arete (mythology) is a character in Homer's epic, Odyssey.
An Arete (landform) is a thin ridge of rock that is formed by glaciers.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Arete.html   (139 words)

  
 Greek Mythology and Ancient Greece - Jason (Argonauts)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Arete was young at that time, as young as Medea, and as yet no child had been born to her.
And Medea, looking into the clear eyes of Queen Arete, knew that she was the woman of whom Circe had prophesied, the woman who knew nothing of enchantments, but who had much human wisdom.
Arete told her that she was to forget all the witcheries and enchantments that she knew, and that she was never to practice against the life of any one.
www.greekhistoryandmythology.com /Greek_Mythology/Heroes_of_Greek_Mythology/Jason_(Argonauts)/17   (1564 words)

  
 SparkNotes: The Odyssey: Character List
Nausicaa - The beautiful daughter of King Alcinous and Queen Arete of the Phaeacians.
Nausicaa discovers Odysseus on the beach at Scheria and, out of budding affection for him, ensures his warm reception at her parents’ palace.
Arete - Queen of the Phaeacians, wife of Alcinous, and mother of Nausicaa.
www.sparknotes.com /lit/odyssey/characters.html   (1079 words)

  
 Behind the Name: View Comments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Arete was a philosopher of the 3rd century BC.
In Greek mythology Arete was the sister of Omonoia (concord).
Arete was also Queen of the Pheaecians in the Odyssey, the mother of princess Nausica, who rescued Odysseus when he was near death and helped him return home.
www.behindthename.com /comment/view.php?name=aretha   (76 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 278 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In the Odyssey she appears as a noble and active superintendent of the household of her husband, and when Odysseus arrived in the island, he first applied to queen Arete to obtain hospitable reception and protection.
Arete and Aristomache were subsequently liberated and kindly received by Hicetas, one of Dion's friends, but he was afterwards persuaded by the enemies of Dion to drown them.
ARETE (\A/H7T?7), daughter of Aristippus, the founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy.
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 ARETE : Greek goddess or spirit of virtue & valour ; mythology : VIRTUS
ARETE was the goddess or daimona 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   (1863 words)

  
 Arete | English | Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
Arete (goddess), a Greek goddess of virtue, and a daughter of Praxidike.Queen Arete (mythology), a character in Homer's Odyssey.Arete, daughter of Dionysius the Elder and wife of Dion of Syracuse.
Arete of Cyrene, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher.
The arete is a thin ridge of rock that is left separating the two valleys.
www.babylon.com /definition/Arete/English   (350 words)

  
 The Odyssey Book VII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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.greek-mythology.com /Books/Odyssey/O_Book_VII/o_book_vii.html   (2532 words)

  
 Easy Encyclopedia - Online Encyclopedia. Knowledge is Power
Art and sport were probably more clearly linked at the time of Ancient Greece, when gymnastics and callesthenics invoked admiration and aesthetic appreciation for the physical build, prowess and 'arete' displayed by participants.
The modern term 'art' as skill, is related to this ancient Greek term 'arete'.
The closeness of art and sport in these times was revealed by the nature of the Olympic Games which were celebrations of both sporting and artistic achievements, poetry scupture and architecture.
www.easyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/sport.html   (2026 words)

  
 The Greek Goddesses
In Greek mythology, Alcmene was the mother of Heracles who, after she died, was worshipped as a Goddess in Thebes and Athens.
Arete was Heracles' teacher and a Goddess of Justice.
In more classical mythology the Titaness Tethys was the wife of her brother Oceanus and by him the mother of the 3000 Oceanids and of all the river gods.
www.paleothea.com /Goddesses.html   (11007 words)

  
 Macleod 's Greek Mythology Page
Arete is the Greek goddess of justice and teacher of Heracles.
She is one of the few who can journey at will to the underworld where she fetches water for solemn oaths, and wears a dress of iridescent drops.
Kakia is vice personified invented to foil Arete, the goddess of virtue.
www.geocities.com /Area51/Dungeon/4785/Greek.html   (2369 words)

  
 SparkNotes: The Odyssey: Books 7–8
She also advises him to direct his plea for help to Arete, the wise and strong queen who will know how to get him home.
Later that evening, when the king and queen are alone with Odysseus, the wise Arete recognizes the clothes that he is wearing as ones that she herself had made for her daughter Nausicaa.
While still withholding his name, Odysseus responds by recounting the story of his journey from Calypso’s island and his encounter with Nausicaa that morning, which involved her giving him a set of clothes to wear.
www.sparknotes.com /lit/odyssey/section4.rhtml   (1288 words)

  
 Phaeacians, Greek Mythology Link.
Rhexenor 2, who was killed by Apollo, was the father of Arete, who married her uncle Alcinous.
The king answered their demand declaring that if she were still a maid, he would send her back to her father, King Aeetes of Colchis, but that if she already had slept with Jason, he would give her to him.
It was then that Queen Arete, anticipating matters, married Medea to Jason.
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Phaeacians.html   (670 words)

  
 Greek myths and gods at the Leslie-Lohman Gay Art Foundation
But over time a better understanding of one word that is always attached to these inscriptions and a greater willingness on the part of scholars to accept the truth of the matter changed all that.
Because the text opens with an invocation to the god Apollo we understand that what follows describes a religious rite involving the giving of “arete.” Crimon not only announces that he is increasing the youth’s “arete” by putting his seed into him, he also proclaims the boy as “high-born” by naming his father.
I have included “The Giving of Arete” because — although not a legend as such, but rather a fact of ancient Dorian behavior — it was a socio-religious phenomenon completely dependent upon belief in the entire pantheon of Greek gods, heroes, nymphs, etc., and the religious construct of the countless myths surrounding them.
www.leslielohman.org /Myths10.htm   (1553 words)

  
 Words from the Editor
For those not familiar with the symbolism of the pomegranate, it was the fruit Hades, Greek god of the Underworld, offered to the goddess Persephone to keep her by his side in the deep-down kingdom of the nether regions.
All cultures have mythologies, but for many of us raised in Western culture, the word “myth” has come to mean the classical Greek myths—the unpredictable pantheon of Zeus and his gang—and the closely related Roman myths.
Like poetry, mythology never goes away but it changes; it shapes to who we are, what is important to us and how we angle our way through lives fraught with no less chaos and danger than those of the ancient Greeks.
www.contemporaryverse2.ca /vol26_4editor.htm   (1815 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
That's the ancient Greek word which is romanized to arete.
This ideal was prevalent in classical Greek society along with various others which together became the epitome of Man and of heroic exploit.
In truth, Jecht fits all of the aforementioned qualities which would have made a man successful in mythical Greek of mythology as well as respected in the later, factual Classical period.
www.remiem.net /jecht/arete.html   (345 words)

  
 Fantasy mythological litterature   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
I'm very well-read with regard to the Classics and mythology and I'm interested in reading some modern interpretations like "Firebrand." Skip _Mists of Avalon_; it's weak and not terribly original.
Whether or not you're into Greek, reading it will give an overview of the different theories of myth, a good idea of the different types of information that can be retained by myths, and some knowledge of mythological borrowing, in this case mainly between the Greeks and other more easterly cultures.
Mythology by Margaret Hamilton I think you mean EDITH Hamilton.
users.tkk.fi /~vesanto/myth.litterature.html   (661 words)

  
 ENGLISH ENCYCLOPAEDIA - Arete   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Arete (paideia) is an Ancient Greek virtue, meaning "excellence".
• Queen Arete (mythology) is a character in Homer's epic, Odyssey.
• An Arete (landform) is a thin ridge of rock that is formed by glaciers.
encyclopaedic.net /english/ar/arete.html   (225 words)

  
 arete - OneLook Dictionary Search
Arete : Glossary of mountaineering terms [home, info]
Words similar to arete: ridge, crest, hogback, valor, more...
This is a OneLook Word of the Day, which means it might be in the news.
www.onelook.com /?w=arete&loc=wotd   (201 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Customer Reviews Books: Latro in the Mist: Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arete   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
"Soldier in the Mist" and "Soldier of Arete" feel like an exercise, Wolfe consciously attempting to develop a storyline where the protagonist and setting are as contrary to the "Book of the New Sun" as possible.
In SOLDIER OF ARETE, Latro is part of a team searching for a Persian engineer who disappeared into the wilderness, and the novel ends with a cliffhanger in which Latro cleverly gains his freedom.
And one further problem is that in SOLDIER OF ARETE the plot moves in one point much too slowly.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0765302942/customer-reviews   (1681 words)

  
 Ursa Major- Mythology Character   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
...are usually named after an animal, a character from mythology, or a common object.
Orion was named after the Greek mythology character who was a hunter.
In Greco-Roman mythology, the character Orion was a...
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 Award honors teen-ager for courage, perseverance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The word arete comes from Greek mythology, meaning a combination of courage and perseverance.
It is a word that epitomizes Bloomington's Rudy Garcia-Tolson, who was honored Friday with the Arete Honors Junior Award.
Rex Lardner of the Intersport-produced Arete Awards said his organization was doing research for the 2001 awards when a magazine story about Rudy came to his attention.
www.press-enterprise.com /newsarchive/2001/10/21/1003637082.html   (407 words)

  
 Classics Log 9705e - Message Number 50   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
of Biography & Mythology, including > false or out-of-date-numeration reff., and added quite a few errors of his > own.
I was going to buy Mumford's _Classical Mythology_ but it was too expensive.
Greek mythology teems with rival versions, mostly local.
omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/CLA-L/Older/log97/9705e/9705e.50.html   (378 words)

  
 Greek Mythology and Ancient Greece - Jason (Argonauts)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
She did not forget what Queen Arete had said to her--that if she wished to appease the wrath of the gods she should have no more to do with enchantments.
She did not forget this, but still there grew in her a longing to use all her powers of enchantment.
He should have remembered then the words of Queen Arete to Medea, but the longing that he had for his triumph and his revenge was in the way of his remembering.
www.greekhistoryandmythology.com /Greek_Mythology/Heroes_of_Greek_Mythology/Jason_(Argonauts)/21   (4224 words)

  
 Character: Solingen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
For the Jaguar is not native to the Pacific Northwest, and the T'sin'quat had no cultural mythology dealing with the Jaguar.
Her free time focussed on volunteer efforts with a number of non-profit organizations set up to help the homeless and the needy.
Her thesis dealt with the impact of cultural mythology on methods of therapeutic healing.
gaming.geoectomy.net /chars/JaguarSolingen.html   (1965 words)

  
 Greek Heroes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
If a hero is properly defined as somebody who does something dangerous to help somebody else, then the heroes of Greek mythology do not qualify.
The knightly code of chivalry is similar to the Greek idea of arete, but to the Greeks the concept had more metaphysical significance.
Learn about the Greek heroes and heroines in mythology and art, with recommended books and resources...
www.justgreece.info /browse/greek-heroes.html   (211 words)

  
 Cenacle
As an amateur interested in ancient mythologies in general, I am stuck by how much there is in Greek mythology.
The size of the cast, the depth of the stories, the density of inter-relationships are all so mind-bogglingly complex that it takes a patient, determined, scholar-like effort to get acquainted with it all.
Greek Mythology is nothing but a transcription of this ancient revolution, which was "not more mysterious in content than are modern election cartoons."
www.cenacle.com.au   (4484 words)

  
 Greek Mythology
both xena and gabrielle were not based upon greek mythology charatcers however xwp and hercules: the legendary journeys are based during the times of ancient greece, so a lot characters are based on actual gods and mortals from greek/classical mythology.
Most popular mythology believes the 12 Olympians are: Zeus, Posiedon, Hera, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Hermes, Demeter, Dionysus, Hephestus and Ares.
*in mythology he is hercules’ nephew but in htlj he is just is ‘sidekick’.
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 Classics Log 9705c - Message Number 38   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Presently there are a list of classics, mythology, archaeology etc. links and a list of the posts in a thread on sci.classics re: the nature of Ganymede (divine or non-) vis Zeus's gift to him of eternal youth and life.
I will be adding other threads of interest to my fellows including an alt.mythology thread debate between myself and another poster over Gany's nature.
Be well and happy Geordi Byron (aka Arete) [Please cc on-group replies personaly to me]
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 Dictionary: Clytomedes to Damarmenus Greek Mythology Link.
Others say that Proetus 1 is son of Nauplius 1, son of Amymone 1, one of the DANAIDS.
A Prince of Corcyra, son of Alcinous and Arete [see also Phaeacians] [Hom.Od.8.119].
One of the ETHIOPIAN CHIEFS who were in the court of Cepheus 1.
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/001ShortEntries/SEClytomedes.html   (5203 words)

  
 Arete (2) * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
Arete (2) * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
andquot;People, Places andamp; Things: Arete (2)andquot;, Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant.
This format will link back to this page, which may be useful but may not be required.
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