beau ideals, classics, eidolons(or eidola), exemplars, ideals, ideas, models, nonesuches, nonpareils, paragons

role modelsembodiments, epitomes, incarnations, manifestations, personifications, phantoms, pinksarchetypes, examples, mirrors, paradigms, patternsguidelines, principles, rulesgauges(also gages), standards, touchstonesessences, quintessencesacmes, apexes(or apices), apotheoses, culminations, peaks, pinnacles, summits, zeniths