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 • Mesopotamian
Metamorphoses
Ovid • Roman
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles • Greek
Antigone
Sophocles • Greek
Atrahasis
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
The Bacchae
Euripides • Greek
Works and Days
Hesiod • Greek
Trojan Women
Euripides • Greek
Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus • Greek
Eridu Genesis
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
Gilgamesh and Huwawa
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
Kalevipoeg
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald • Slavic
The Book of Taliesin
Anonymous • Celtic
Pindar: Odes
Pindar • Greek
The Curse of Agade
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
De Astronomica
Hyginus • Roman
Fabulae
Hyginus • Roman
Hymns
Callimachus • Greek
The Myth of Aqhat
Anonymous • Levantine
The Intoxication of the Ulstermen
Anonymous • Celtic
Gróttasöngr
Anonymous • Germanic
Fulgentius' Mythologies
Fabius Planciades Fulgentius • Roman
Song of Release
Anonymous • Levantine