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excellence so total the Greeks made it a verb for everything from blades to virtue
means Arete is the ancient Greek ideal of excellence or virtue — the full realization of a thing's or person's potential and proper function.
from From Greek aretē (ἀρετή), meaning excellence or moral virtue, central to Homeric and later philosophical thought, where it named the peak performance of anything — a sharp sword, a swift runner, a just soul. It is possibly related to aristos, 'best' (the root behind 'aristocracy,' literally 'rule by the best'). Note: the mountaineering 'arête,' a knife-edged ridge, is a separate French word from Latin arista, 'ear of grain' or 'fishbone' — a coincidence of spelling, not a shared ancestor.
- origin
- Greek word for being your best self
- double life
- also a knife-edged mountain ridge
- glacier-carved
- two glaciers grind a wall to a blade
- homeric
- applied to warriors, horses, and good land alike
- goddess
- personified as a minor deity of virtue
arete ridge new zealand — sharp ridge on mount aspiring between rhoura and matukituki valleys, a classic alpine climbing feature
arete mont blanc — knife-edge ridge on mont blanc in the alps, part of the three monts climbing route
arete patagonia — numerous jagged ridges in the fitz roy massif, argentine patagonia, including the famous torre valley traverse