Socio-Political Significance of Herodotos' Hybris and Phthonos and Thucydides' Rule of Power and Tyche
Hybris (arrogance) and the states potentially caused by hybris, phthonos (zealousy or envy), and ate (disaster) or nemesis (punishment), in Herodotus frequently are attributed to Xerxes. And hybris does not refer to the monarchic domination itself, but the ambition for an excessive scale of territ...
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Athens Institute for Education and Research
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Athens Journal of History |
| Online Access: | http://www.atiner.gr/journals/history/2015-1-1-5-Che.pdf |