Suffering
21 books featuring this theme
Suffering is experience of pain, loss, or injustice and its interpretation. It raises problems of theodicy and motivates compassion or reform.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Sin-leqi-unninni
1200-1000 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
429-425 BCE
Greek
Antigone
Sophocles
441 BCE
Greek
Classic of Poetry
Anonymous
400-200 BCE
East Asian, Chinese
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus
500-400 BCE
Greek
Electra
Sophocles
420-410 BCE
Greek
Trojan Women
Euripides
415 BCE
Greek
The Tale of Igor's Campaign
Anonymous
1185-1200 CE
Slavic
Man’yōshū
Various
759 CE
East Asian, Japanese
Alcestis
Euripides
438 BCE
Greek
Hecuba
Euripides
424 BCE
Greek
Philoctetes
Sophocles
409 BCE
Greek
Buddhacarita
Ashvaghosha
1-200 CE
Indian, Buddhist
Buile Shuibhne
Anonymous
1100-1200 CE
Celtic, Irish
Trachiniae
Sophocles
450-430 BCE
Greek
Inanna and the Huluppu-Tree
Anonymous
1900-1800 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
Kanteletar
Elias Lönnrot
1840 CE
Slavic, Finnish
Latvian Dainas
Anonymous
1894-1915 CE
Slavic, Latvian
The Myth of Aqhat
Anonymous
1400-1300 BCE
Levantine, Ugaritic
The Colloquy of the Ancients
Anonymous
1200-1220 CE
Celtic, Irish
Posthomerica
Quintus of Smyrna
300-400 CE
Greek