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That was called peripeteia, meaning a dramatic reversal of fortune.

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A tragedy, wrote Aristotle in the fourth century BC, depicts the fall of a great but flawed man, and hinges on a peripeteia, or sudden reversal, like the Italian defender’s slur.

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My second thought: the Greek word “peripeteia,” a sudden reversal of fortune.

But the most crucial element of tragedy as he saw it was peripeteia: reversals of fortune.

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This is the classic Aristotelian peripeteia: the sudden reversal of fortune.

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