hamartia

I would email her study guides saying “What do you think Oedipus’s hamartia was? What is your hamartia?” but when I saw her it was always difficult to work into conversation.

If you’re unfamiliar with hamartia, it may sound like the sort of medication your family doctor would prescribe to ward off a series of colds or a massive coronary.

“A hamartia?” he asked, the cigarette still in his mouth.

An instance is provided by Aristotle's famous saying that the typical tragic hero is one who falls from high state or fame, not through vice or depravity, but by some great hamartia.

Do forgive the remote diagnosis but it’s clear by now that Maria Sharapova has tested positive for hamartia.