Arete
Sign in to save'''''' () is a concept in ancient Greek thought that refers to "excellence" of any kind—especially a person or thing's "full realization of potential or inherent function." The term may also refer to excellence in "moral virtue."
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Greek
- Deity.member_of
- The Praxidicae
- Deity.name
- Arete
- Deity.image
- Arete - Areté- Éfeso.jpg
- Deity.caption
- Statue of Arete in Celsus' Library in Ephesus, 2nd century AD
- Deity.god_of
- Goddess of excellence and virtue
- Deity.parents
- Praxidice and Soter
- Deity.siblings
- Homonoia
- Deity.gender
- Female
- Deity.equivalent1
- Virtus
- Deity.equivalent1_type
- Roman
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Homer
- <!-- [[Arete (goddess)]] links here -->Personification
- Examples of usage
- Athletics
- Paideia
- See also
- References
- Further reading
'''''' () is a concept in ancient Greek thought that refers to "excellence" of any kind—especially a person or thing's "full realization of potential or inherent function." The term may also refer to excellence in "moral virtue."
The concept was also occasionally personified as a minor goddess, Arete (not to be confused with the mythological Queen Arete), who, together with sister Homonoia, formed the ("Exacters of Justice").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arete” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.