Ancient greek name for love, art, clothes, courage, beauty?

Eros

Ancient greek name for love, art, clothes, courage, beauty?
mike drazen
Reply:The Greeks word for love in the aesthetic sense was agape. There were other words for sexual love and love of mankind. There was not one form of Greek so there can be many answers to your question.


To phrase it better, there were over 1500 city states that considered themselves Greek. They had many variations in language. It was not just Athens and Sparta.
Reply:Eros
Reply:Well, there were many different Greek city states in antiquity, with different history and different dialect, but this does not mean they could not understand each other. Of course they could (but linguists will have a better explanation for these matters). The difficult point is to find an appropriate word for each word you give. All of the ancient greek words for them exist in modern greek, but the meaning is not (exactly) the same anymore, and there are distinct words for different types of the same thing, like love, as mentioned by Lyyman.


Physical beauty is described mostly by


螝维位位慰蟼 (cuh-lohs -calligraphy=beautiful writing).


Art is


螝伪位位喂蟿蔚蠂谓委伪 (cuh-lee-teh-Hnee- uh, h as in horse, beautiful practice)


韦苇蠂谓畏 (teh -hnee, from the verb 蟿委魏蟿蠅=bear, so


韦苇蠂谓畏 is giving birth, practicing, it is more related to art-ifacts and art-isans)


Clothes


螘谓未蠉渭伪蟿伪 (ehn-thee-muh-tuh)


Love


桅喂位蠈蟿畏蟼 (phee-loh-tis, philo-sophy) -general sense (liking)


桅喂位委伪 (phee-lee-uh, same root as above)


螆蟻蠅蟼 (ehros) -when you are in love with someone


螒纬维蟺畏 (agapee) -though it existed as a word it gained great importance when Christianism begun to rise]


Courage


螛维蟻蟻慰蟼 (thuh-rohs)


[not sure about its use either. 螤伪蟻蟻畏蟽委伪 is the courage to speak out, it literally means all-saying]