1) Ancient Greek religion
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An aretology (from ancient Greek aretê, `excellence, virtue`) in the strictest sense is a narrative about a divine figure`s miraculous deeds. In the Greco-Roman world, aretologies represent a religious branch of rhetoric and are a prose development of the hymn as praise poetry. Asclepius, Isis, and Serapis are among the deities with surviving ......
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• (n.) That part of moral philosophy which treats of virtue, its nature, and the means of attaining to it.
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<study> That part of moral philosophy which treats of virtue, its nature, and the means of attaining to it. ... Origin: Gr.; virtue + discourse, to speak: cf. F. Aretologie. ... (04 Mar 1998) ...
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Ar`e·tol'o·gy noun [ Greek ...; ... virtue + ... discourse, ... to speak: confer French
arétologie .] That part of moral philosophy which treats of virtue, its nature, and the means of attaining to it.
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That branch of ethics concerned with the nature of virtue. -- C.A.B.
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