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== '''The Redefinition of the Tragic Cycle of : hybris-ate-nemesis-tisis''' == | == '''The Redefinition of the Tragic Cycle of : hybris-ate-nemesis-tisis''' == | ||
In Greek mythology''', Poena or Poine''' (Greek''': Ποινή''' "recompense, punishment") is the spirit of punishment and the attendant of punishment to Nemesis, the goddess of divine retribution. Sometimes mentioned as one being, and sometimes in the plural as Poenai (Ποιναί) and are akin to the Erinyes. | In Greek mythology''', Poena or Poine''' (Greek''': Ποινή''' "recompense, punishment") is the spirit of punishment and the attendant of punishment to Nemesis, the goddess of divine retribution. Sometimes mentioned as one being, and sometimes in the plural as Poenai (Ποιναί) and are akin to the Erinyes. | ||
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The Redefinition of the Tragic Cycle of : hybris-ate-nemesis-tisis[edit | edit source]
In Greek mythology, Poena or Poine (Greek: Ποινή "recompense, punishment") is the spirit of punishment and the attendant of punishment to Nemesis, the goddess of divine retribution. Sometimes mentioned as one being, and sometimes in the plural as Poenai (Ποιναί) and are akin to the Erinyes.
The Torment of Tantalus, the Myth of Sisyphus, the Barrel of the Danaids are still today shared references of European culture.
But At what point does a punishment become the part of the Gods? What does it mean: "ύβρις /hybris, άτη /Ate, νέμεσις / Nemesis and τίσις /Tisis?
Hybris[edit | edit source]
Hybris was a basic concept of the worldview of the ancient Greeks, which largely followed Hellenism into modern times.
We can say that the ancient Greeks believed that Hubris usually caused the intervention of the gods and especially Zeus, for someone who overestimated their abilities and behaved in an arrogant manner and insulting towards others, the laws of the State but especially towards the deities.
The gods, according to ancient beliefs, were offended and angered by these abusive acts.
Άτη / Ate[edit | edit source]
“Hybris”. Is the action performed by the hero or heroine, usually because is the great pride, that leads to his or her death or down-fall.
Provoked, by extension, the intervention of the gods, and in particular from Zeus, who sent the insulter "ate", ancient Greek for “ruin, folly, delusion that is to say, cloudiness, blindness of the mind. "Ate" led the insulter to new insults, until he committed a very great folly, fell into a very serious error, which caused the "nemesis", that is, the wrath and vengeance of the gods.
Νέμεσις / Nemesis[edit | edit source]
"Ate" led the insulter to new insults, until he committed a very great folly, fell into a very serious error, which caused the "nemesis", that is, the wrath and vengeance of the gods.
In the Greek tragedies Nemesis appears chiefly as the avenger of crime and the punisher of hubris, and as such is akin to Ate.
Τίσις /Tisis[edit | edit source]
Then comes the “tisis”, that is, the punishment and crushing or complete destruction of the person who committed the crime.
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