Avenger
51 books featuring this archetype
The Avenger restores violated order through sanctioned retaliation. This figure embodies justice as recompense, often bound by kinship duty, oath, or divine mandate.
Poetic Edda
Anonymous • Germanic
Oresteia
Aeschylus • Greek
Apollodorus' Library
Pseudo-Apollodorus • Greek
Avesta
Various • Persian
The Bacchae
Euripides • Greek
Nibelungenlied
Anonymous • Germanic
Medea
Euripides • Greek
Book of Enoch
Anonymous • Levantine
Táin Bó Cúailnge
Anonymous • Celtic
The Contendings of Horus and Seth
Anonymous • Egyptian
Romulus and Remus
Livy • Roman
Electra
Sophocles • Greek
Hippolytus
Euripides • Greek
Shiva Purana
Anonymous • Indian
Lesser Bundahishn
Anonymous • Persian
Fasti
Ovid • Roman
Soushen Ji
Gan Bao • East Asian
Book of the Heavenly Cow
Anonymous • Egyptian
The Book of Caverns
Anonymous • Egyptian
Gesta Danorum
Saxo Grammaticus • Germanic
Ragnars saga loðbrókar
Anonymous • Germanic
Ynglinga saga
Snorri Sturluson • Germanic
Hecuba
Euripides • Greek
Theseus
Plutarch • Greek