hybris

But then, again, Aristotle did not "immortalize" the word "hybris," the Athenian tragedians had already done that.

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As the classical imagination rightly observed, we all have a tendency to privilege the contents of the ego in service to our security (this they called hybris) and a tendency to view the world through the colored lens granted us by fate (this they called the hamartia) and end by deceiving ourselves.

California Literary Review 2009

As the classical imagination rightly observed, we all have a tendency to privilege the contents of the ego in service to our security (this they called hybris) and a tendency to view the world through the colored lens granted us by fate (this they called the hamartia) and end by deceiving ourselves.

California Literary Review 2009

Therefore also dikē is the implacable foe of that peculiar trespassing of the bounds of propriety which the Greeks called hybris (W. & D. 213, 238-39; Archilochus, frag. 94), and even though hybris may degrade dikē to violence in the Iron Age (W. & D. 190-93; cf. Theognis 'complaints at 44-45 and 291-92), dikē will win out in the end

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968

Ixion and Bellerophon become types of this kind of hybris; their fall is interpreted as a lesson to

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

'hybris', which means 'excessive pride and wanton violence'.

Metal Hammer 2009

'hybris', which means 'excessive pride and wanton violence'.

Metal Hammer 2009

Owners of such vehicles share a feeling of hybris.

Word Fugitives 2007

Owners of such vehicles share a feeling of hybris.

Word Fugitives 2007

Hubris, sometimes spelled hybris ancient Greek ὕβρις, is a term used in modern English to indicate overweening pride, self-confidence, superciliousness, or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution.

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