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Hi! This post is great. I decided to search the web for Greek references in Destiny after killing Thumos the Unbroken in the main campaign. I studied the Ancient Greek language in university and love when I see it peppered throughout games I play. I came to add Thumos ("θυμός") to the list. I learned this word in Bk.4 of Plato's Republic as one part of his tripartite theory of the soul. There's reason, appetite, and spirit (thumos). http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D4 So, when using thumos to describe someone it would be like saying they are high in spirits/high-spirited. In that way, it makes Thumos the Unbroken's name interesting because the "Unbroken" part of his name backs up the Ancient Greek meaning of thumos. To say someone is unbroken or unbreakable is usually a statement about the strength or resilience of one's spirit. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph?l=qumo%2Fs&la=greek&can=qumo%2Fs0&prior=qu/mos#Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=qu/mos2-contents The link above shows some of the usage of Thumos. As you see in the third entry, there is also one usage of it in Democrites' medical writings meaning "warty excrescence", or simply "wart", which is funny and likely not associated with Bungie's inspiration to use the word.
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  • I don’t want to be rude but «θυμός» means anger in Greek. Mistakes in translation are easy to occur, for example: “reason” in Greek translates as «λόγος» but «λόγος» in Greek can also mean “speech”. It’s hard to translate something without the context of the sentence. And it’s even harder to translate Ancient Greek, even for modern Greek people. I hope this whole paragraph makes sense, ‘cause I’m Greek and my English are kinda rusty

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