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GCSE Classics · key term
Overbearing pride or insolence expressed in behaviour that disregards proper limits, especially the difference between mortals and gods. It is more than ordinary confidence.
Used by OCR
Paper 5
Revise: Ideology, Hubris and Personal MotivationsHubris goes further: overbearing pride becomes behaviour that disregards proper limits, especially the boundary between mortals and gods. A brave or successful warrior is not automatically guilty of hubris.
Distinguish confidence from hubris: Diomedes has Athena’s permission to wound Aphrodite, but not to attack Apollo.
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