Hubris in Greek Tragedy
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- Hubris in Greek Tragedy
- Oedipus
- Likening himself to a God - even the priest calls him out on it
- Laius' **** of Cyrssipus - MYTH
- Oedipus "coupling" with his mother - Incest
- Willing to kill an innocent person: Shepherd
- Furthermore, he also wants to kill Creon
- Oedipus is judgemental upon hubristic actions!
- "He didn't flinch at murder, he'll never flinch at words"
- Doesn't listen to Tiresias!
- Calls him a "scheming quack" even though he is a prophet of Apollo!
- Jocasta encourages him to be hubristic
- "To look neither left nor right"
- Antigone
- Creon not burying the body of Polynikes
- Due to his harmartia
- "Nor did I think that you, a mere mortal, could override the gods"
- Creon commits hubris, Antigone doesn't!
- The Chorus believe that the burial of the body is "the work of the gods"
- Ignores the message of Tiresias
- Tiresias doesn't even need to be summoned!
- According to the Chorus man should weave in "the laws of the land, and the justice of the gods" - CREON DOESN'T
- Creon is willing to kill an innocent person: Ismene
- Stops himself!
- Inadvertently kills Haemon and Eurydike - their deaths are blamed on him!
- Creon not burying the body of Polynikes
- Medea
- Backstory is routed in hubris: Medea's killing in Colchis including the murder of Pelias
- Establishes unsettling characterisation
- Killing of her children
- Killing of Glauce and Creon
- Lack of burial for children by father
- Revels in her hubris
- Only way to influence Jason
- "I have stung your heart"
- Only way to influence Jason
- Backstory is routed in hubris: Medea's killing in Colchis including the murder of Pelias
- Hippolytus
- Incentive moment: Hippolytus' pride to pray to Artemis and not Aphrodite
- "No god who uses the night to work her wonders will ever find favour with me"
- Theseus' destruction of his Oikos
- Initial blasé attitude due to his willingness
- Phaedra's lust for Hippolytus (implanted by Aphrodite)
- The Nurse's encouragement - perhaps hinting that sometimes sophism can sometimes be considered as hubrisitic
- Phaedra's suicide
- Incentive moment: Hippolytus' pride to pray to Artemis and not Aphrodite
- Oedipus
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