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
200 BCE-400 CE
Indian, Hindu
Ramayana
Valmiki
300-100 BCE
Indian, Hindu
Poetic Edda
Anonymous
1270 CE
Germanic, Norse
Metamorphoses
Ovid
1 BCE-8 CE
Roman
The Aeneid
Virgil
29-19 BCE
Roman
Beowulf
Anonymous
1000-1025 CE
Germanic, Anglo-Saxon
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
429-425 BCE
Greek
Nihon Shoki
Prince Toneri
720 CE
East Asian, Japanese
Apollodorus' Library
Pseudo-Apollodorus
1-200 CE
Greek
Shahnameh
Ferdowsi
977-1010 CE
Persian
The Mabinogion
Anonymous
1100-1410 CE
Celtic, Welsh
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Anonymous
900-1000 CE
East Asian, Japanese
Medea
Euripides
431 BCE
Greek
Epic of Sundiata
Anonymous
1900-2000 CE
African, Mandinka
The History of the Kings of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth
1136 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Records of the Grand Historian
Sima Qian
109-91 BCE
East Asian, Chinese
The Story of Sinuhe
Anonymous
1900-1800 BCE
Egyptian
Argonautica
Apollonius of Rhodes
200-100 BCE
Greek
Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles
406-405 BCE
Greek
Romulus and Remus
Livy
27-25 BCE
Roman
Kalevala
Elias Lönnrot
1835-1849 CE
Slavic, Finnish
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Joseph Bédier
1900 CE
Germanic, French
Hebrew Bible
Various
1000-200 BCE
Levantine, Hebrew
Ifá Corpus
Oral Tradition
1200-2000 CE
African, Yoruba