{"id":29667,"date":"2016-02-21T07:21:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T07:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=29667"},"modified":"2017-03-23T20:06:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T20:06:28","slug":"hubris-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/hubris-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>H<\/strong><strong>ubris<\/strong> is defined by Wikipedia to mean, <em>&#8220;in a modern context, extreme pride or self-confidence; in its ancient Greek context, it typically describes violent and excessive behavior rather than an attitude. When it offends the gods of ancient Greece, it is usually punished.&#8221; <\/em>Such was the fate of Plato&#8217;s Atlantis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sarantitis-george\/\">George Sarantitis<\/a> has drawn attention to the fact that the offence of hubris and its consequences <em>&#8220;is referred 26 times throughout the Odyssey and 4 times throughout the Iliad&#8221;. <\/em>This is just one example of the Homeric influence on Plato, a subject dealt with at length by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/suzanne-bernard\/\">Bernard Suzanne<\/a><sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>One doctor has identified political hubris as a medical disorder<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">(b)<\/span><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/plato-dialogues.org\/tools\/char\/homerqot.htm\">https:\/\/plato-dialogues.org\/tools\/char\/homerqot.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2009\/mar\/28\/politicians-hubris-medical-condition\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2009\/mar\/28\/politicians-hubris-medical-condition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hubris is defined by Wikipedia to mean, &#8220;in a modern context, extreme pride or self-confidence; in its ancient Greek context, it typically describes violent and excessive behavior rather than an attitude. When it offends the gods of ancient Greece, it is usually punished.&#8221; Such was the fate of Plato&#8217;s Atlantis. George Sarantitis has drawn attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[2241,520,123,4506,132],"class_list":["post-29667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bernard-suzanne","tag-george-sarantitis","tag-homer","tag-hubris","tag-plato"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}