Hubris

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If you've ever seen or read a greek drama then, I think you'll agree that everything is complicated but has a continuity, a connection with either history or mythology. We've already talked about nemesis but what I left out was that, she is part of a sequence of divine punishments that ancient Greeks believed them to be true. So, we have Υβρις (ivris)/Hubris which is the crime of arrogance, someone overestimating their strength, physical or mental and challenges the gods by thinking, or insinuating, that they don't need them or they're above them. Then comes Ατη (Atis) the fall, which makes the perpetrator commit an even bigger crime by sticking to their arrogance, then Νεμεσις (Nemesis) follows to judge them and finally Τίσις (Tisis) to punish them. It's worth mentioning that all four, appear either as individual Goddesses or in this (and strictly this) sequence, applied by a god that might have felt offended by a human. Βρισιά (vrisia) in modern Greek means 'swear word' and it derives from ΥΒΡΙΣ/HUBRIS

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