Noos
idea · 2 works · 24 mentions · 57 anchored passages
noos · mind · judgment · thinking · will · consideration · counsels · good sense · his wisdom · matters of the mind
in the texts
Odyssey
The concept of mind, intention, or plan, marked explicitly as Agelaos states the suitors' scheme.
This is what will be our plan [ noos]:
nevertheless, my courage [ aretê] and wise counsel [ noos] saved us then, and we shall live to look back on all this as well.
when I was washing him I perceived the scar which the wild boar gave him, and I wanted to tell you about it, but in his wisdom [ noos] he would not let me, and clapped his hands over my mouth;
Iliad
The Greek term for mind, will, or purpose, glossed repeatedly as characters' inner disposition or the inscrutable will of Zeus.
the will [ noos] of Zeus and the javelins of the Trojans were too much for him;
Do not hide in your mind [ noos] anything from me but tell me that both of us may know about it.
horseman Peleus was not your father nor Thetis your mother, but the gray sea bore you and the sheer cliffs begot you, so cruel and remorseless are you in your thinking [ noos].