Aidos
idea · 2 works · 9 mentions · 13 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Aidos the deity
aidôs · shame · aidos · decency · honeyed moderation · honor and respect · sense of shame · shamefaced
in the texts
Odyssey
The Greek concept of shame, modesty, or the respect it commands, applied to persuasive restraint and to the honor owed to bards.
bards get honor and respect [ aidôs] throughout the world, for the Muse teaches them their songs and loves them.
his honeyed moderation [ aidôs] carries his hearers with him so that he is leader in all assemblies of his fellows, and wherever he goes he is looked up to.
Would that I were still young and strong [ biê] as I was in those days, for then some one of you swineherds would give me a cloak both out of good will and for the respect [ aidôs] due to a brave warrior;
Iliad
The concept of shame invoked by Hera to spur the Argives to courage, named explicitly with the bracketed Greek term aidôs.
"shame [ aidôs] on cowardly creatures, brave in semblance only;
"Shame [ aidôs] on you, where are you fleeing to?
let what will be seen, all is honorable in death, but when an old man is slain there is nothing in this world more pitiable than that dogs should defile his gray hair and beard and all that men hide for shame [ aidôs].