Exile
92 books featuring this theme
Exile is enforced separation from homeland or community. It examines identity under displacement and the conditions for return or adaptation.
Mahabharata
Vyasa • Indian
Ramayana
Valmiki • Indian
Poetic Edda
Anonymous • Germanic
Metamorphoses
Ovid • Roman
The Aeneid
Virgil • Roman
Beowulf
Anonymous • Germanic
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles • Greek
Nihon Shoki
Prince Toneri • East Asian
Apollodorus' Library
Pseudo-Apollodorus • Greek
Shahnameh
Ferdowsi • Persian
The Mabinogion
Anonymous • Celtic
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Anonymous • East Asian
Medea
Euripides • Greek
Epic of Sundiata
Anonymous • African
The History of the Kings of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth • Celtic
Records of the Grand Historian
Sima Qian • East Asian
The Story of Sinuhe
Anonymous • Egyptian
Argonautica
Apollonius of Rhodes • Greek
Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles • Greek
Romulus and Remus
Livy • Roman
Kalevala
Elias Lönnrot • Slavic
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Joseph Bédier • Germanic
Hebrew Bible
Various • Levantine
Ifá Corpus
Oral Tradition • African