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
1270 CE
Germanic, Norse
Oresteia
Aeschylus
458 BCE
Greek
Apollodorus' Library
Pseudo-Apollodorus
1-200 CE
Greek
Avesta
Various
300-700 CE
Persian, Zoroastrian
The Bacchae
Euripides
407-405 BCE
Greek
Nibelungenlied
Anonymous
1200-1210 CE
Germanic
Medea
Euripides
431 BCE
Greek
Book of Enoch
Anonymous
300-100 BCE
Levantine, Ethiopian
Táin Bó Cúailnge
Anonymous
1100-1200 CE
Celtic, Irish
The Contendings of Horus and Seth
Anonymous
1180-1070 BCE
Egyptian
Romulus and Remus
Livy
27-25 BCE
Roman
Electra
Sophocles
420-410 BCE
Greek
Hippolytus
Euripides
428 BCE
Greek
Shiva Purana
Anonymous
900-1400 CE
Indian, Hindu
Lesser Bundahishn
Anonymous
800-1200 CE
Persian, Zoroastrian
Fasti
Ovid
8-14 CE
Roman
Soushen Ji
Gan Bao
300-400 CE
East Asian, Chinese
Book of the Heavenly Cow
Anonymous
1290-1150 BCE
Egyptian
The Book of Caverns
Anonymous
1200-1100 BCE
Egyptian
Gesta Danorum
Saxo Grammaticus
1185-1222 CE
Germanic, Norse
Ragnars saga loðbrókar
Anonymous
1270-1300 CE
Germanic, Norse
Ynglinga saga
Snorri Sturluson
1220-1230 CE
Germanic, Norse
Hecuba
Euripides
424 BCE
Greek
Theseus
Plutarch
100 CE
Greek