Death
20 books featuring this theme
Death is the termination of embodied life and transition to other states. It structures mourning, memorial, and ethical reflection on human limits.
The Iliad
Homer
750-700 BCE
Greek
Epic of Gilgamesh
Sin-leqi-unninni
1200-1000 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Atharvaveda
Anonymous
1-1000 CE
Indian, Hindu
Atrahasis
Anonymous
1700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Zhuangzi
Zhuang Zhou
300-200 BCE
East Asian, Chinese
Iroquois Creation Cycles
Anonymous
1600-1800 CE
Native American, Iroquois
Y Gododdin
Aneirin
600-1200 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Liezi
Lie Yukou
300-400 CE
East Asian, Chinese
Adapa and the South Wind
Anonymous
1400-700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Hawaiian Mythology
Martha Warren Beckwith
1940 CE
Pacific, Hawaiian
Polynesian Mythology
George Grey
1855 CE
Pacific, Polynesian
Epinician Odes
Bacchylides
490-452 BCE
Greek
Trachiniae
Sophocles
450-430 BCE
Greek
Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest
Katharine Berry Judson
1910 CE
Native American
Nga Mahi a nga Tupuna
George Grey
1854 CE
Pacific, Maori
The Lore of the Whare-Wānanga
H. T. Whatahoro Jury
1865-1915 CE
Pacific, Maori
The Myth of Aqhat
Anonymous
1400-1300 BCE
Levantine, Ugaritic
Codex Borgia
Anonymous
1500 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec
Krákumál
Anonymous
1100-1200 CE
Germanic, Norse
Nornagests þáttr
Anonymous
1387-1394 CE
Germanic, Norse