What are the saddest ancient texts (medieval counts as well)?

>>24534281 (OP)
My diary desu

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http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=wdr

>>24534281 (OP)
Metamorphoses made me cry

>>24534281 (OP)
Hadrian's poem he composed before killing himself.

https://followinghadrian.com/2013/07/10/animula-vagula-blandula-hadrians-farewell-to-life/


>Animula, vagula, blandula
Hospes comesque corporis
Quae nunc abibis in loca
Pallidula, rigida, nudula,
Nec, ut soles, dabis iocos.

Little soul, you charming little wanderer, my body’s guest and partner,
Where are you off to now?
Somewhere without colour, savage and bare;
Never again to share a joke.

>>24534281 (OP)
Genesis. When Sodom and Gomorrah got sacked, I cried, them niggas got decimated for having a good time

>>24536198
>before killing himself.
??

>>24536152
Yeah, there are some really sad stories in it.

>>24536398
Why was Medea so evil?

>>24534281 (OP)
great thread. a lot of the chu ci is quite sad similar to >>24535839.

>>24537948
>Why was Medea so evil?
Idk, I never read Diary of a Mad Black Woman

>>24537948
>Why was Medea so evil?
She has a cunt.

>>24537562
Because of the melancholy nature of the poem I must have just assumed he killed himself after writing it.

>>24537948
>kidnapped from her homeland under false pretenses
>killed her own brother for no other reason than to give Jason time in escaping
>generally hated by everyone in Greece for being a foreigner and practicing foreign magic plus speaking a funny language
>her husband (only person in world who even has semblance of liking her) wants to leave her and her children in destitution so he can advance in social hierarchy by marrying a native Greek princess

You tell me.

>>24534281 (OP)
The old English “Wanderer” poem.