wrath
idea · 3 works · 11 mentions · 18 anchored passages
mênis · anger · his anger · menis · the wrath of the gods
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Iliad
The Greek concept of wrath or consuming anger, glossed explicitly in the text and named as the poem's opening theme.
- "Achilles, loved of heaven, you bid me tell you about the anger [ mênis] of King Apollo, I will therefore do so;
meanwhile stay where you are with your ships, nurse your anger [ mênis] against the Achaeans, and hold aloof from fight.
Sing, O goddess, the anger [ mênis] of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.
Odyssey
The Greek concept of mênis, divine wrath or displeasure, here attributed to Athena against the Achaeans.
for they had not all been either wise or just [ dikaios], and hence many came to a bad end through the displeasure [ mênis] of Zeus' daughter Athena, who brought about a quarrel between the two sons of Atreus.
"Then send him away," said Hermes, "and fear the mênis of Zeus, lest he grow angry and punish you"’
Fear, too, the wrath [ mênis] of the gods, lest they should be displeased and turn upon you.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Varuṇa's anger, which the supplicants seek to abate through obeisance and offerings.
We implore the abatement of your wrath with obeisances;