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 • Greek
Metamorphoses
Ovid • Roman
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles • Greek
The Bacchae
Euripides • Greek
Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus • Greek
The Story of Sinuhe
Anonymous • Egyptian
Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles • Greek
Parzival
Wolfram von Eschenbach • Germanic
Theseus
Plutarch • Greek
Saturnalia
Macrobius • Roman
The Book of Taliesin
Anonymous • Celtic
Epinician Odes
Bacchylides • Greek
Ion
Euripides • Greek
Hildebrandslied
Anonymous • Germanic
Description of Greece
Pausanias • Greek
A True Story
Lucian of Samosata • Greek
Antoninus Liberalis: Metamorphoses
Antoninus Liberalis • Greek