Counsel

Counsel

See also Guidance.

Courage (See BRAVERY.)

Achitophel

sage adviser to David; subsequently to Absalom. [O.T.: II Samuel 16:23]

Antenor

counselor; advised Priam to return Helen to Menelaus. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 23]

Areopagus

hill near the Acropolis used for Athenian council deliberations. [Gk. Hist.: Benét, 46]

Chesterfield, Lord

(1694–1773) wrote Letters to His Son to educate him in the ways of the world. [Br. Lit.: Magill III, 565]

Consus

god of councils and advice; agricultural god. [Rom. Myth.: Kravitz, 65; Parrinder, 66]

Egeria

wife, instructress, and advisor of emperor Numa. [Rom. Myth.: Jobes, 491; Avery, 426]

Krishna

Hindu god acts as spiritual and military counselor to Arjuna and his family. [Hindu Lit.: Mahabharata]

Laurence, Friar

adviser to the lovers. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet]

Mentor

Odysseus’s adviser; entrusted with care and education of Telemachus. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey]

Nestor

a sage old counselor to the Greeks in the Trojan War. [Gk. Myth.: Iliad]

Polonius

gives Laertes rules of conduct. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare Hamlet]

Poseidon Hippios

god of counsel and councils. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 67]

Proverbs

precepts for living according to God’s law and common sense. [O.T.: Proverbs]

Way to Wealth, The

maxims intended to inculcate virtue and frugality. [Am. Lit.: Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack in Benét, 803]