In director Christopher Nolan’s currently shooting feature “The Odyssey”, the main character flaw of Greek hero ‘Odysseus' is his ‘hubris’, or excessive pride and arrogance, leading to significant failures and consequences, including a curse from the ‘Cyclops’ cannibal ‘Polyphemus', the wrath of the sea god ‘Poseidon' and a prolonged and arduous sea voyage home:

‘…’Hubris’, describes a personality quality of extreme or excessive pride…

‘…or dangerous overconfidence and complacency, often in combination with arrogance.

“The term arrogance comes from the Latin ‘adrogare’, meaning ‘to feel that one has a right…

“…to demand certain attitudes and behaviors from other people’".

“‘To arrogate means ‘to claim or seize without justification’.

“According to studies, hubris, arrogance, and pretension are related to the need for ‘victory’ even if it does not always mean winning.

“Hubris is usually perceived as a characteristic of an individual rather than a group…

“…although the group the...