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... his homartia among other things. Homartia is usually taken to mean a moral fault such as pride and when things go wrong it is usually quoted as being the cause: "Pride breeds the Tyrant" (pg 49). Additionally, Arsitotle in his Poetics commented on what he felt a good tragic hero should have. A tragic hero is only such if he is a "renowned and prosperous man...whose misfortune is brought upon him not by vice and depravity but by some error and judgement". This is the case because tragedy is heightened by bad things that happen to good people. This leads to Aristotle's next point, a tragic hero must not be "pre-eminently virtuous and just" which again applies to Oedipus. If bad things happen to absolutely good people, this is not a good tragedy but it is in fact "repulsive" as Arsitotle also says. This tragedy is of the callabre that ...