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.
but the counsels [ noos] of Zeus pass man's understanding;
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.