Lover
10 books featuring this archetype
The Lover enacts attachment, union, and reciprocity. This figure reveals the integrative or disruptive power of desire within social order.
The Iliad
Homer • Greek
Metamorphoses
Ovid • Roman
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Joseph Bédier • Germanic
Shiva Purana
Anonymous • Indian
Hymns to Inanna
Various • Mesopotamian
Nergal and Ereshkigal
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
Roman de Troie
Benoît de Sainte-Maure • Germanic
Codex Fejérváry-Mayer
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Dionysiaca
Nonnus of Panopolis • Greek
Erotika Pathemata
Parthenius of Nicaea • Greek