"literary theme," 1948, from Greek topos, literally "place, region, space," also "subject of a speech," a word of uncertain origin. "The broad semantic range renders etymologizing difficult" [Beekes].
James Joyce uses the topos of the Wandering Jew in his Ulysses
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