concept

Hubris

Beliefs & concepts

The named classical overreach that insults measure and the gods. Not pride as capital self-exaltation alone, and not arrogance as bare manner.

Hellenic religion

  • Hubris appears in Hellenic religion.

    The Iliad names ὕβρις among insults of overreach that wound measure between kings and before the gods — Agamemnon’s slight of Achilles among them. A named hubris in that epic’s moral speech, not pride as capital self-exaltation alone and not every arrogance dump.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.