Mythology research help

[island]

Hey everyone, I'm looking for any stories throughout ancient mythology involving a character running away from his problems rather than facing them and paying the price for it. Any ideas?

[thatwritergirl]

Re: Mythology research help

Hey everyone, I'm looking for any stories throughout ancient mythology involving a character running away from his problems rather than facing them and paying the price for it. Any ideas?

Are you willing to count the Old Testament, or are you looking for Greek/Roman? If so, what about Jonah and the whale?

[Rantanplan]

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I can't think of any characters like that off the top of my head, but Bulfynch's Mythology is one of THE references on mythology, from the Greeks and Romans to the Norse, the Medieval myths and more. A must have for the personal home library.


And: ditto on Aquarius men.

[island]

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Are you willing to count the Old Testament, or are you looking for Greek/Roman? If so, what about Jonah and the whale?

Anything. Bible works too.

[island]

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Aquarius men

I don't get it.

[LauriD]

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Jacob running from his brother Esau after cheating him out of his birthright

Daphne running from some god who was after her

Theseus turned to piracy; i think he got tired of being king

The gingerbread man?

[Ravenlocks]

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The gingerbread man?

This is the best one yet.

[Mountain Goat]

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Oedipus and Judas.

[LauriD]

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Achilles, sulking in his tent

[Fortean]

In Homer's Iliad...

Paris

[bioprofessor]

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The Odyssey (Odysseus)