Hubris
23 books featuring this theme
Hubris is overreach that violates human limits and challenges divine or social order. It attracts corrective downfall and instructs on proportionality.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Sin-leqi-unninni
1200-1000 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Metamorphoses
Ovid
1 BCE-8 CE
Roman
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
429-425 BCE
Greek
Antigone
Sophocles
441 BCE
Greek
Atrahasis
Anonymous
1700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
The Bacchae
Euripides
407-405 BCE
Greek
Works and Days
Hesiod
700 BCE
Greek
Trojan Women
Euripides
415 BCE
Greek
Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus
467 BCE
Greek
Eridu Genesis
Anonymous
1700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
Gilgamesh and Huwawa
Anonymous
2000-1700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
Kalevipoeg
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald
1853-1862 CE
Slavic, Estonian
The Book of Taliesin
Anonymous
1500-1600 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Pindar: Odes
Pindar
498-446 BCE
Greek
The Curse of Agade
Anonymous
2000-1600 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
De Astronomica
Hyginus
27 BCE-200 CE
Roman
Fabulae
Hyginus
1-100 CE
Roman
Hymns
Callimachus
300-200 BCE
Greek
The Myth of Aqhat
Anonymous
1400-1300 BCE
Levantine, Ugaritic
The Intoxication of the Ulstermen
Anonymous
1100-1200 CE
Celtic, Irish
Gróttasöngr
Anonymous
1200-1300 CE
Germanic, Norse
Fulgentius' Mythologies
Fabius Planciades Fulgentius
500-600 CE
Roman
Song of Release
Anonymous
1400-1300 BCE
Levantine, Hittite