Thrasos

In Greek mythology, Thrasos^{[pronunciation?]} (Ancient Greek: Θράσος) is the personified concept of boldness.

Although the word θράσος itself could be used both in the positive ("

Atë and opposed to Dike.^[2]

According to

But an old Hubris tends to bring forth in evil men, sooner or later, at the fated hour of birth, a young Hubris and that irresistible, unconquerable, unholy spirit, Recklessness [Thrasos], and for the household black Curses, which resemble their parents.[3]

Notes

^ A Greek-English Lexicon compiled by H. G. Liddel and R. Scott. 10th edition with a revised supplement. – Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996. - p. 804, under θράσος
Agamemnon 763–771
.

Agamemnon 763–771
.

References

Aeschylus, Agamemnon in Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes, Vol 2, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1926. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.

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[1] A Greek-English Lexicon compiled by H. G. Liddel and R. Scott. 10th edition with a revised supplement. – Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996. - p. 804, under θράσος

[2] Agamemnon 763–771
.

[3] Agamemnon 763–771
.

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