Fate
176 books featuring this theme
Fate is an impersonal or supra-personal determination of events beyond choice. It sets narrative limits and provokes reflection on freedom and responsibility.
The Iliad
Homer
750-700 BCE
Greek
The Odyssey
Homer
700-600 BCE
Greek
Mahabharata
Vyasa
200 BCE-400 CE
Indian, Hindu
Poetic Edda
Anonymous
1270 CE
Germanic, Norse
Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson
1220 CE
Germanic, Norse
Enuma Elish
Anonymous
1100-1000 BCE
Mesopotamian, Babylonian
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
Oresteia
Aeschylus
458 BCE
Greek
Popol Vuh
Anonymous
1554-1703 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan
Le Morte Darthur
Thomas Malory
1469-1485 CE
Germanic, English
Kojiki
O no Yasumaro
712 CE
East Asian, Japanese
Antigone
Sophocles
441 BCE
Greek
Apollodorus' Library
Pseudo-Apollodorus
1-200 CE
Greek
Theogony
Hesiod
700-600 BCE
Greek
Shahnameh
Ferdowsi
977-1010 CE
Persian
The Song of Roland
Anonymous
1100-1150 CE
Germanic, Old French
The Bacchae
Euripides
407-405 BCE
Greek
The Mabinogion
Anonymous
1100-1410 CE
Celtic, Welsh
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Anonymous
900-1000 CE
East Asian, Japanese
Nibelungenlied
Anonymous
1200-1210 CE
Germanic
Völsunga saga
Anonymous
1250-1270 CE
Germanic, Norse