Honor
idea · 5 works · 13 mentions · 22 anchored passages
honor · timê · honorable · noble · renown · shame · valor · base · base nature · disgrace
in the texts
Iliad
The Greek concept of honor or due prestige, explicitly glossed and central to the quarrel over prizes.
surely Zeus, who thunders from Olympus, might have given honor [ timê] in return.
for your pleasure, not ours - to gain satisfaction [ timê] from the Trojans for your shameless self and for Menelaos.
and you, Achilles, strive not further with the king, for no man who by the grace of Zeus wields a scepter has like honor [ timê] with Agamemnon.
Nicomachean Ethics
Public esteem, considered and rejected as the Supreme Good because it depends more on those who confer it than on its possessor.
It is clear therefore that in the opinion at all events of men of action, virtue is a greater good than honor;
Men of refinement, on the other hand, and men of action think that the Good is honor—for this may be said to be the end of the Life of Politics.
and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.
Ajax
Heroic reputation, martial worth, and the shame of dishonor that shape Ajax's reasoning.
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Philoctetes
Honor is the moral value Neoptolemus invokes against deceit and Philoctetes invokes in asking for rescue.
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Nicocles or the Cyprians
Public esteem, praise, and recognition that follow justice, temperance, virtue, and loyal service.
Manifest your good will towards me in deeds rather than in words.
Believe that you should love and honor those whom your king loves and honors, in order that you may win from me these same distinctions.
Do not strive to gain riches rather than a good name, knowing that both among the Hellenes and the barbarians as well those who have the highest reputation for virtue have at their command the greatest number of good things.