Heroine

4 books featuring this archetype

The Heroine pursues agency within constraint, navigating social and cosmic tests. Her victories often reconfigure kinship, sovereignty, or ritual roles.

Antigone cover

Antigone

Sophocles

441 BCE

Greek

Iphigenia among the Taurians cover

Iphigenia among the Taurians

Euripides

414-412 BCE

Greek

Manimekalai cover

Manimekalai

Sattanar

400-600 CE

Indian, Hindu

Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks cover

Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks

Anonymous

1200-1400 CE

Germanic, Norse