Homer's Epic the Iliad

Homer's Epic The Iliad

Homer's Epic The Iliad

The Greek concept of hubris is matching oneself to the gods. In the innovative of Mythology by Edith Hamilton numerous hubris sins were committed. Bellerophon, Arachne, and Niobe, are demonstrations of some victims of the hubris sin where they endured immersive consequences. (Cairns, 1-32)

To start with, Bellerophon illustrates the hazards of hubris when he endeavoured to travel Pegasus to Mt. Olympus. After Bellerophon travelled Pegasus for the first time he was so persuaded with himself that he endeavoured to take location at Olympus with the gods. He had the eager and aspiration to travel Pegasus to Olympus, but the gods disputed to this. As the gods, Pegasus too did not accept of this so like a shrewd equine he knew he shouldn't battle back. When Bellerophon made an effort to travel Pegasus for the second time Pegasus chucked him and Bellerophon became a crippled outcast. When Bellerophon was hurled off of Pegasus he endeavoured to bypass men after that incident. Bellerophon's hubris is was a hazard to his likeness and himself.

Another hazard of hubris is when Arachne was disputed to a weaving challenge contrary to Minerva. Arachne liked to verify to every individual that she could be better than the gods at weaving. She liked to be equality with the gods that she acknowledged the to manage the contest. When she acknowledged the disputed and was thriving Minerva was furious that she trounce the girl's head with her shuttle. Arachne was so furious that she hanged herself. Minerva than turn into a arachnid with her illusion liquid. The hazard of Arachne's hubris was a genuine risk to dispute a god. envious of Leto being warship by the persons that she asserted that she should be the one being warship. Niobe said to the persons of Thebes (Fisher, 192 )

Besides Bellerophon's and Arachne's hubris Niobe too took the risk to notify the persons of Thebes to warship her. Niobe was "I am joyous, powerful, great- for any, men or gods, to manage me harm. Make your forfeitures to me in Leto's temple, mine now, not hers" (page 349). When Leto's two children Apollo and Artemis learned this they went to Thebes were they Niobe glimpsed them killing her seven children and seven daughters. She became a pebble like her heart and every evening and day she cried. The hubris of Niobe was an ...