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Aidos

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Aidos
ancient Greek personification of conscience. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 14]


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It is this factor--the differing cultural constraints imposed upon male and female and the divergent experience of aidos that results--it is this factor that most decisively distinguishes the behavior of Ninus and Semiramis, allowing his eloquent appeal for marriage while silencing her desires.
As enunciated by Pindar, the athletic ideal incorporated courage and endurance with modesty, dignity, and fair-mindedness, those elusive qualities the Greeks called Aidos.
 
 
 
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