a year agoIt still means outrageous insult in modern Greek 🇬🇷 and we love using it when we are pretty serious 🧐
a year agoThe etymology is uncertain, but there is a minority view that it comes from ὑπέρ - hyper - "over". Indeed this transgression of the human measure and offense of the divine order is rooted in pride, as seen in the standard layout of tragedy, and this is a common human condition view shared by the ancient Greeks and not just Christians.
a year agoGreetings from a Greek who loves your content! I think that you should do nemesis next ( relevant with this post because of the hubris, atis, nemesis, tisis "sequence"), because it's one more word that used to mean something completely different than how it is used today.
