morning theosophy...
"There are unseen barriers which a man who has aidos (reverence) in
him does not wish to pass. Hybris does not see that the poor man
or the exile has come from Zeus: Hybris is the insolence of irreverence: the brutality of strength. In one form it is a sin of the low and the weak, irreverence; the absence of Aidos in the presence of something higher. But nearly always it is a sin of the strong and the proud. It is born of Koros, or satiety--of 'being too well off,' it spurns the weak and helpless out of its path 'spurns' as Aeschylus says, 'the great Altar of Dike' (Agammenon, 383). And Hybris is the typical sin condemned by early Greece. Other sins, except someconnected with definite religious taboos, and some derived from words meaning 'ugly' or 'unfitting',seem nearly all to be forms or derivatives of Hybris."
him does not wish to pass. Hybris does not see that the poor man
or the exile has come from Zeus: Hybris is the insolence of irreverence: the brutality of strength. In one form it is a sin of the low and the weak, irreverence; the absence of Aidos in the presence of something higher. But nearly always it is a sin of the strong and the proud. It is born of Koros, or satiety--of 'being too well off,' it spurns the weak and helpless out of its path 'spurns' as Aeschylus says, 'the great Altar of Dike' (Agammenon, 383). And Hybris is the typical sin condemned by early Greece. Other sins, except someconnected with definite religious taboos, and some derived from words meaning 'ugly' or 'unfitting',seem nearly all to be forms or derivatives of Hybris."
Murray, Gilbert, The Rise of the Greek Epic, London,Oxford University Press,1907, p. 264 f.
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