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 • Mesopotamian
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles • Greek
Antigone
Sophocles • Greek
Classic of Poetry
Anonymous • East Asian
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus • Greek
Electra
Sophocles • Greek
Trojan Women
Euripides • Greek
The Tale of Igor's Campaign
Anonymous • Slavic
Man’yōshū
Various • East Asian
Alcestis
Euripides • Greek
Hecuba
Euripides • Greek
Philoctetes
Sophocles • Greek
Buddhacarita
Ashvaghosha • Indian
Buile Shuibhne
Anonymous • Celtic
Trachiniae
Sophocles • Greek
Inanna and the Huluppu-Tree
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
Kanteletar
Elias Lönnrot • Slavic
Latvian Dainas
Anonymous • Slavic
The Myth of Aqhat
Anonymous • Levantine
The Colloquy of the Ancients
Anonymous • Celtic
Posthomerica
Quintus of Smyrna • Greek