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Arete
Arete

Arete is the term meaning "virtue" or "excellence", from Greek ??et?Arete may also refer to:*as a given name of persons or things:**Queen Arete , a character in Homer's Odyssey....
is the term meaning "virtue" or "excellence", from Greek ??et?

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as a given name of persons or things:

Queen Arete (mythology)
Arete (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Queen Arete of Scheria was the wife of Alcinous and mother of Nausicaa and Laodamas. She welcomed Odysseus and treated him hospitably....
, a character in Homer's Odyssey.

197 Arete
197 Arete

197 Arete is a Asteroid belt asteroid. It has a very bright surface, unusually bright even for a rocky S-type asteroid.It was discovered by Johann Palisa on May 21, 1879, and named after Arete , the mother of Nausicaa in Homer's The Odyssey....
, an asteroid.

Arete of Cyrene
Arete of Cyrene

Arete of Cyrene was the daughter of Aristippus of Cyrene, a follower of Socrates. Arete is sometimes described as the successor of her father as head of the Cyrenaic school, but in fact it is not known whether Aristippus himself or his grandson – Aristippus the Younger – was the founder of that school....
, a 4th-century BC Greek philosopher.
Arete, daughter of Dionysius the Elder and wife of Dion of Syracuse.

as a toponym, normally transliterated Areti:

Areti, Cyclades, a village on the island of Milos
Milos

Milos , formerly known as ????? – Melos, and before the Athens massacre and recolonization in 416 BC as ????? – Malos, is a volcanic Greece island in the Sea of Crete, just south of the Aegean Sea....
, Cyclades
Areti, Elis, a village in Elis
Areti, Ioannina, a village in the Ioannina Prefecture
Ioannina Prefecture

Ioannina is a prefectures of Greece of Greece, part of the north-western peripheries of Greece of Epirus . Its capital is the city of Ioannina....
Areti, Thessaloniki, a village in the Thessaloniki Prefecture
Thessaloniki Prefecture

Thessaloniki is a nomos in Greece, containing Thessaloniki, Lagadas and the northern portion of the Chalcidicean peninsula. The prefecture is the second in Greece in population and the largest in Macedonia as well as northern Greece....

Arete (shrimp), a genus
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
of snapping shrimps.
Arête
Arete

Arete is the term meaning "virtue" or "excellence", from Greek ??et?Arete may also refer to:*as a given name of persons or things:**Queen Arete , a character in Homer's Odyssey....
, a thin ridge of rock that is formed by glaciers.
Areté
Arete

Arete is the term meaning "virtue" or "excellence", from Greek ??et?Arete may also refer to:*as a given name of persons or things:**Queen Arete , a character in Homer's Odyssey....
, an arts magazine.
A synonym for enlightenment in the role-playing game Mage: The Ascension
Mage: The Ascension

Mage: The Ascension is a Role-playing game based in the old World of Darkness, and was published by White Wolf, Inc.. The characters portrayed in the game are referred to as mages, and are capable of feats of magic....
.
A form of political organization, available for Runes of Kilmorph civilizations in Fall from Heaven 2, a total conversion modification for Civilization IV
Civilization IV

Sid Meier's Civilization IV is a turn-based strategy Personal computer game released in 2005 and developed by game designer Soren Johnson under the direction of Sid Meier and Meier's video game developer Firaxis Games....
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