Lexicographical Neighbors of Hybris
Literary usage of Hybris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Greatest Works of the Greatest Authors, Ancient and Modern (1894)
"A third sort will have him the issue of Jupiter and hybris, that is, Reproach.
But whatever his origin was, the Destinies are allowed his sisters. ..."
2. The Agamemnon of AEschylus by Aeschylus (1824)
"The first parent stock was ' hybris,' a spirit of insolence or insubordination
breaking out into acts of outrage, the forerunner of every calamity in a ..."
3. Early Greek philosophy by Alfred William Benn (1908)
"Literally hybris means no more than excess, and some trace of this ... Morally and
etymologically hybris is also connected with the word outrage, ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1882)
"The Greek tragedians dwell with predilection on the hybris, the arrogant ...
In the fortunes of this people we encounter, as it were, an hybris made up of ..."
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