Arete ((pronounced uh-ret))

                This from H.D.F. Kitto's The Greeks :  

                        "If Arete is used in the context of a man, it will connote excellence in the ways in which a man can be excellent---- morally, intellectually, physically, practically .  thus the hero of the Odyssey is a great fighter, a wily schemer, a ready speaker, a man of stout heart and broad wisdom {{Broad Wisdom}} who knows that he must endure without too much complaining what the gods send; and he can both build and sail a boat, drive a furrow as straight as anyone, bet a young braggart at throwing the discus, challenge the Phaecian youth at boxing, wrestling or running; flay, skin, and cut-up and cook an ox, and be moved to tears by a song .  He is, in fact, an excellent All-Rounder, he has surpassing arete ."