There may not necessarily have been elaborate philosophical structures built around it, but it is a very human thing to look at a situation and go "you know what, this fucking sucks"
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwòone tendency that comes out about period films is the insistence that XYZ moral thought would not have occurred to anyone in the ancient world. to be sure there are moral innovations and changes but the existence of thorough dissatisfaction with the present moral order is not a modern phenomenon