There’s a central paradox in Greek tragedy, which is this: the tragic hero brings about his own downfall because of some terrible flaw or fracture in his own nature – pride, or lust, or moral blindness. But at the same time, he’s destroyed because the gods, or some subset of the gods, decided to stitch him up good and proper. Fate and hubris go hand in hand. So destiny gets to pull the trigger , but you pretty much have to paint the target on your own chest first – and the horror of your downfall is precisely equal to the scale of your fuck-up. Ordinary mortals watch and wonder.
–Mike Carey, from the introduction to Greek Street: Blood Calls for Blood by Peter Milligan & Davide Gianfelice
