Sophrosyne view in subsequent Western European thought. Sophrosyne is one of the cardinal virtues. An adjectival form is "sophron". Sophrosyne Sophrosyne () is an ancient Greek concept of an ideal of excellence of character and soundness of mind, which when combined in one well-balanced individual leads to other qualities, such as temperance, moderation, prudence, purity, decorum and self-control. In other languages there is no equivalent word. In Greek literature sophrosyne is considered an important quality, and is sometimes expressed in opposition to the concept of hubris. A noted example of this occurs in Homer's "The Iliad". When Agamemnon decides to take
Ancient Greek phonology The geminate versions of the aspirated stops are written with the digraphs , and geminate is written as , since represents in the standard orthography of Ancient Greek. Voiceless is usually written with the "spiritus asper" as and transcribed as "rh" in Latin. The same orthography is sometimes encountered when is geminated, as in , sometimes written , giving rise to the transliteration "rrh". This example also illustrates that () assimilates to following , creating gemination. The close front rounded vowels and (an evolution of and respectively) are both represented in writing by the letter upsilon () irrespective of length.