hubris
ruinous arrogance
Today this word meansArrogance that forgets its place. The pride that summons destruction.
In Greek tragedy, arrogance always calls down retribution — after hubris comes Nemesis.
Niobe, Arachne, Tantalus: all fell at exactly this spot.
Worth noting
In ancient Athens, hybris was not a character trait but a **crime** — a legal term for the act of degrading someone with insult, and it was indictable. The current sense of "arrogance toward the gods" hardened later.