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This led to the thought that athletics had to be present in order to obtain arete.
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The modern term art as skill, is related to this ancient Greek term arete.
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The Ancient Greeks had a concept of arete which meant an outstanding fitness for purpose.
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Penelope's arete, for example, relates to co-operation, for which she is praised by Agamemnon.
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He was blessed with arete, that Greek quality liable to half-translation as virtue, goodness or valour.
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Socrates was a living demonstration of arete, courageously embodying his ideals throughout his life.
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It seems to me that Amundsen had what the Greeks called arete, meaning being suited for what you do.
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Arete in ancient Greek culture was courage and strength in the face of adversity and it was to what all people aspired.
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Arete was also the name of King Alcinous's wife.
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- A sharp narrow ridge found in rugged mountains
- An aru00EAte is a thin, almost knife-like, ridge of rock which is typically formed when two glaciers erode parallel U-shaped valleys. The aru00EAte is a thin ridge of rock that is left separating the two valleys. Aru00EAtes can also form when two glacial cirques erode headwards towards one another, although frequently this results in a saddle-shaped pass, called a col...
- Arete (Greek: ; in English), in its basic sense, means excellence of any kind. In its earliest appearance in Greek, this notion of excellence was ultimately bound up with the notion of the fulfillment of purpose or function: the act of living up to one's full potential. ...
- In Greek mythology, Queen Arete (/u0259u02C8riu02D0tiu02D0/; Greek: u1F08u03C1u03AEu03C4u03B7, Aru00EAtu00EA) of Scheria was the wife of Alcinous and mother of Nausicaa and Laodamas. Arete is a descendant of Poseidon, who, making love to Periboea, begot Nausithous, who in turn had two sons, Rhexenor and Alcinous. Rhexenor later spawned Arete with Apollo.
- 197 Arete is a Main belt asteroid. It has a very bright surface, unusually bright even for a rocky S-type asteroid.
- Aretes (Greek) or Aretas was a Macedonian general. In the battle of Gaugamela he commanded the cavalry of Sarissophoroi replacing Protomachus.
- Sharp, knife-like ridge formed between two cirques cutting back.
- A sharp, narrow mountain ridge. It often results from the erosive activity of alpine glaciers flowing in adjacent valleys.
- A sharp, steed-sided ridge in an upland area. Resultant of enlargement of adjacent corries.
