text: In ancient times, exposition (from the latin expositus, "exposed") was a method of infanticide or child abandonment in which infants were left in a wild place either to die due to hypothermia, hunger, animal attack or to be collected by slavers or by those unable to produce children.
  Mythological
  This form of child abandonment is a recurring theme in mythology, especially among hero births.
  Some examples include:
  Sargon, King of Akkad – exposed to the river.
  Karna – exposed to the river.
  Tang Sanzang – exposed to the river on a wooden plank. The historical person he is based on never suffered such a fate.
  Moses – exposed to the river Nile on a basket.
  Oedipus – exposed in the mountains.
  Paris – exposed at the top of Mount Ida.
  Zāl – exposed in the Alborz mountains.
  Telephus – exposed on Mount Parthenion.
  Atalanta – exposed on Mount Parthenion.
  Perseus – boxed and cast into the sea with his mother, Danaë.
  Gilgamesh – thrown from the acropolis.
  Romulus and Remus – exposed in a tub to the Tiber River.