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To-do: Menos (μένος; "to be fervent"), psyche (ψυχή; [[soul]]), possibly [[nous]] |
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Menos derives from the verb μενοιναν “to be fervent”, and shares similarity with the Greek verb meneainein (“anger” or “striving”). The irrationality which menos invokes attests to the indeterminate nature of the gods and nature. Menos is fury unleashed, a state by which the gods shape humans into a weapon of brutal force towards fulfilling an objective. Unlike thymos, menos did not reside in the body but was rather possessed by divinities. Examples of menos are common in Homeric literature. It is Athena who fills Telemachus, son of Odysseus with menos in order to confront his mother’s suitors. It is also the self-same goddess who thrusts excessive menos into the phrenes of her beloved Diomede.<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Study_of_Thumos_in_Early_Greek_Epic/wd2mDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=thumos&printsec=frontcover]</ref> |
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Revision as of 03:16, 26 May 2024
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For my purposes:
To-do: Menos (μένος; "to be fervent"), psyche (ψυχή; soul), possibly nous
Menos derives from the verb μενοιναν “to be fervent”, and shares similarity with the Greek verb meneainein (“anger” or “striving”). The irrationality which menos invokes attests to the indeterminate nature of the gods and nature. Menos is fury unleashed, a state by which the gods shape humans into a weapon of brutal force towards fulfilling an objective. Unlike thymos, menos did not reside in the body but was rather possessed by divinities. Examples of menos are common in Homeric literature. It is Athena who fills Telemachus, son of Odysseus with menos in order to confront his mother’s suitors. It is also the self-same goddess who thrusts excessive menos into the phrenes of her beloved Diomede.[1]