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Hubris at the Glasgow School of Art
In its ancient Greek context, hubris is typically described as behaviour synonymous with arrogance that defies the norms or challenges the gods, and which in turn brings about the downfall, or nemesis, of the perpetrator of hubris. We can only observe that if one thing is certain, it is that life is full of reversals. Or so the Greeks teach us ......