Identity
17 books featuring this theme
Identity is stable self-definition derived from kinship, place, role, and belief. Myths negotiate its formation, loss, and transformation across thresholds.
The Odyssey
Homer
700-600 BCE
Greek
Metamorphoses
Ovid
1 BCE-8 CE
Roman
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
429-425 BCE
Greek
The Bacchae
Euripides
407-405 BCE
Greek
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus
500-400 BCE
Greek
The Story of Sinuhe
Anonymous
1900-1800 BCE
Egyptian
Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles
406-405 BCE
Greek
Parzival
Wolfram von Eschenbach
1200-1210 CE
Germanic
Theseus
Plutarch
100 CE
Greek
Saturnalia
Macrobius
430 CE
Roman
The Book of Taliesin
Anonymous
1500-1600 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Epinician Odes
Bacchylides
490-452 BCE
Greek
Ion
Euripides
412 BCE
Greek
Hildebrandslied
Anonymous
830-840 CE
Germanic
Description of Greece
Pausanias
160-180 CE
Greek
A True Story
Lucian of Samosata
100-200 CE
Greek
Antoninus Liberalis: Metamorphoses
Antoninus Liberalis
100-200 CE
Greek