Kharis
idea · 2 works · 11 mentions · 12 anchored passages
kharis · favor · grace · gracefulness · gratitude · joy · verbal grace
in the texts
Odyssey
The Greek concept of grace or charm, applied both to physical beauty granted by Athena and to persuasive speech.
Another may be as handsome as a god, but his good looks are not crowned with verbal grace [ kharis].
Every one was struck with the appearance of Odysseus, for Athena had beautified [ kharis] him about the head and shoulders, making him look taller and stouter than he really was, that he might impress the Phaeacians favorably as being a very remarkable man, and might come off well in the many trials [ athlos] of skill to which they would challenge him.
if you kill me, I shall die without having done anything to deserve it, and shall have got no thanks [ kharis] for all the good that I did.
Iliad
The concept of favor or grace owed between men, named explicitly with the bracketed Greek term kharis.
I did ill to take my bow down from its peg on the day I led my band of Trojans to Ilion as a favor [ kharis] to Hektor, and if ever
So there the poor young man lay, sleeping a sleep as it were of bronze, killed in the defense of his fellow-citizens, far from his wedded wife, of whom he had had no joy [ kharis] though he had given much for her:
For all which may the grace [ kharis] of heaven be granted you in great abundance.