entheos

In classical spec - ulation on art, the inspired genius was said to be entheos, “filled with god,” and because he utters divine words, able to give “birth to beauty.”

CREATIVITY IN ART MILTON C. NAHM 1968

[102] Enthusiasm is the being [Greek: entheos], or inspired by some god.

Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

Otherwise, entheos eimi contains everything, for the man who was only common clay before his inspiration, and will be common clay when it departs, feels, for the time, as if a god had descended, and was within him.

To-morrow? Victoria Cross 1910

The Greeks expressed the peculiar feeling that a man has when his inspiration comes upon him by the phrase, entheos eimi, and we can hardly find a better one, only unfortunately we don't believe in gods.

To-morrow? Victoria Cross 1910

It is obvious that "godly" does not come up to the meaning of the original entheos, "into which God is inspired," see below.

NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889

She was inspired by Apollo, [538] it was said, like the Pythia, and like her too became [Greek: entheos] (_possessed_) when uttering her prophecies; this is the earliest fact we know about her, for a famous fragment of

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

Of the _frantic_ type of diviner, the [Greek: entheos], so common in Greece, we hear nothing in the sober Roman annals; the idea of a human being "possessed by a spirit of divination" seems foreign to the

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

Enthusiasts, [Greek: enthousiastai] from [Greek: entheos, ois ho theos enesi], or possibly from [Greek: en thusiais], those who, in sacrifice to, or at, the altar of truth or falsehood, are possessed by a spirit or influence mightier than their own individuality.

Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803