“warrior hero such as Ajax, Hector or Achilles must be willing to fight in hand-to-hand combat day after day. He must be able, physically and psychologically, to plunge a sword into the body of another human being, and to risk… — C. D. C. Reeve Copy Share Image
“Anger is triggered by insult, then, and so is connected to worth (aretê) and to honour (timê). A person is insulted when the treatment… — C. D. C. Reeve Copy Share Image
“Warriors with developed senses of honour and hair-trigger tempers sensitive to the slightest insult make dangerous enemies but they also make uncertain allies. Indeed,… — C. D. C. Reeve Copy Share Image
“warrior hero such as Ajax, Hector or Achilles must be willing to fight in hand-to-hand combat day after day. He must be able, physically… — C. D. C. Reeve Copy Share Image
“Anger or rage (mênis, thumos, orgê) is an emotion, a mixture of belief and desire. It is not a somatic feeling, as nausea and… — C. D. C. Reeve Copy Share Image
“Honour, like insult, comes from others. It is their recognition of our worth. It is the intrusion of the social into the psychological, the… — C. D. C. Reeve Copy Share Image
![“Honour, like insult, comes from others. It is their recognition of our worth. It is the intrusion of the social into the psychological, the public into the private. After all, others honour us for what they find of worth in us. ‘To pursue [honour],’ wrote Baruch Spinoza in Treatise on the…” quote by C. D. C. Reeve](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4d4/c-d-c-reeve-64895_honor_honour-like-insult-comes-from-others-it_1068436.jpg)