Influential wife of myth

Usage examples of arete.

The nymphs that make her train are the divine Arete, Time, Phronesis, Thauma, and others of that high sort.

I kiss thy hands, divinest Arete, And vow myself to thee, and Cynthia.

O thou, the very power by which I am, And but for which it were in vain to be, Chief next Diana, virgin heavenly fair, Admired Arete, of them admired Whose souls are not enkindled by the sense, Disdain not my chaste fire, but feed the flame Devoted truly to thy gracious name.

We have already judged him, Arete, Nor are we ignorant how noble minds Suffer too much through those indignities Which times and vicious persons cast on them.

Nor are these all, For we suspect a farther fraud than this: Take off our veil, that shadows many depart, And shapes appear, beloved Arete -- So, Another face of things presents itself, Than did of late.

Queen Arete, to whom Medea had appealed for protection, kept her royal husband awake by complaining, in a general way, of the ill-treatment to which fathers too often subjected their daughters, whether the daughters were guilty of anything or not.

King Alcinous and his queen, Arete, who also lay wakeful in the night.

And at last, when Orpheus had ended, they all went thoughtful out, and the heroes lay down to sleep, beneath the sounding porch outside, where Arete had strewn them rugs and carpets, in the sweet still summer night.

But Arete pleaded hard with her husband for Medeia, for her heart was softened.

Sirens are his most dangerous temptation, but the sea-nymph Ino helps him land on Scheria, where Arete and Nausicaa smooth his path.

So do as Arete says, though on Alcinous here depend all words and action.

And Arete sent her serving-women, one to carry a sea-cloak, washed and fresh, a shirt as well, another assigned to bear the sturdy chest and a third to take the bread and ruddy wine.

He still must be accepted by Alkinoos and Arete, and this happens in the course of the long hospitality scene that spans Books 7 and 8.

Her aid and his own wit will carry Odysseus through, and Alkinoos and Arete will turn out to be consummate hosts.

Odysseus has been taken in and fed and the other guests have departed, he has a conversation with Alkinoos and Arete that, like his encounter with Nausikaa, demands all his finesse to avoid possible pitfalls.