Arete
mythological figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 16 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Aretê the idea
Queen Arete · Virtue · queen Arete
spoken of as
1 expressionVirtue“Arete”1 mention
Memorabilia (Greek)
For of all things good and fair, the gods give nothing to man without toil and effort.
in the texts
Odyssey
Queen of the Phaeacians, wife of Alkinoos, whose good will Odysseus is advised to win in order to secure his passage home.
but he left a daughter Arete, whom Alkinoos married, and honors as no other woman is honored of all those that keep house along with their husbands.
Arete was the first to speak, for she recognized the shirt, cloak, and good clothes that Odysseus was wearing, as the work of herself and of her maids;
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 woolen cloaks for Odysseus to wear.
Memorabilia
The personified figure of Virtue in Prodicus's allegory, who offers Heracles a hard but ultimately honorable and rewarding path through life, contrasted with Vice.
For of all things good and fair, the gods give nothing to man without toil and effort.
Aye, and Prodicus the wise expresses himself to the like effect concerning Virtue in the essay On Heracles that he recites to throngs of listeners.
Therefore I hope that, if you take the road that leads to me, you will turn out a right good doer of high and noble deeds, and I shall be yet more highly honoured and more illustrious for the blessings I bestow.