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== Oral Tradition, Folklore, Myths and Legends ==
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: [[Classical Mythology]] is chock full of these. Here "pride" often means contention with or disrespect for a god.
** Medusa was a famously beautiful priestess of Athena. In Ovid's late [[Retcon|retelling]] of the myth she has sex with Poseidon in a temple of Athena. She got turned into [[A Kind of One|one of the Gorgons]] by Athena because of it.<ref>In the (numerous) earlier versions of the myth, Medusa does nothing prideful but gets walloped by the gods anyway -- one version even had her ''raped'' by Poseidon.</ref>
** Arachne claimed she could weave better than the Goddess of Arts (and most everything else), Athena. The story varies from telling to telling; in some she makes tapestries depicting the gods' faults and foibles, and in some she out-and-out taunts Athena after actually beating her in a weaving contest. Either way, her pride gets her beaten senseless and nearly killed by the angry Athena, who quickly relents and turns Arachne into the first spider as a testament to her skill.
*** Yet another version has her [[Driven to Suicide|hanging herself]] after Athena destroys her life's work (a moving tapestry of the gods) in a fit of jealous rage. Athena resurrects her as the first spider out of remorse.
*** Note that she didn't just [[Blasphemous Boast|claim to be better than Athena]], in many versions of the story ''she actually was''. [[Jerkass God|Not that the Greek gods being phenomenal jerks should surprise anyone]], of course.
** Both Psyche and Andromeda ended up [[Chained to a Rock]] because someone had said they were more beautiful than Aphrodite, who did not tolerate challenges to her [[Fairest of Them All]].▼
** Queen Niobe of Thebes once boasted that she was superior to the goddess Leto because, among other things, she had ''seven'' sons and seven daughters as compared to the latter's only two children: Apollo and Artemis. It did not end well. It also contains the most stunning example of [[Break the Haughty]] in classical mythology: {{spoiler|After all fourteen of her children were killed, Niobe wept. And wept. And wept so much that the gods took pity on her and turned her into an unfeeling stone. And the stone ''still wept.''}}▼
* Achilles in [[Homer]]'s ''[[The Iliad]]'' [[Achilles in His Tent|refused to leave his tent]] and help the Greeks fight, even after Agamemnon apologized for their meaningless spat earlier. He ended up with a {{spoiler|[[Dead Sidekick]]}}.
* In ''[[Odyssey|The Odyssey]]'', Odysseus blinds the cyclops Polyphemus, and tells Polyphemus "Nobody" did it, so that when the other cyclops asked who blinded him, Polyphemus could reply only, "Nobody." Of course, this plan failed, when Odysseus became so proud of his feat he ''yelled'' to Polyphemus to remember the man who blinded him, Odysseus, son of Laertes, King of Ithaca. Polyphemus called out to his dad, who just happened to be Poseidon, for vengeance; as a result, Odysseus was stranded on Calypso's island for seven years.
▲* Both Psyche and Andromeda ended up [[Chained to a Rock]] because someone had said they were more beautiful than Aphrodite, who did not tolerate challenges to her [[Fairest of Them All]].
▲* Queen Niobe of Thebes once boasted that she was superior to the goddess Leto because, among other things, she had ''seven'' sons and seven daughters as compared to the latter's only two children: Apollo and Artemis. It did not end well. It also contains the most stunning example of [[Break the Haughty]] in classical mythology: {{spoiler|After all fourteen of her children were killed, Niobe wept. And wept. And wept so much that the gods took pity on her and turned her into an unfeeling stone. And the stone ''still wept.''}}
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