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
750-700 BCE
Greek
Metamorphoses
Ovid
1 BCE-8 CE
Roman
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult
Joseph Bédier
1900 CE
Germanic, French
Shiva Purana
Anonymous
900-1400 CE
Indian, Hindu
Hymns to Inanna
Various
2300-1800 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
Nergal and Ereshkigal
Anonymous
1400-700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Roman de Troie
Benoît de Sainte-Maure
1160 CE
Germanic, French
Codex Fejérváry-Mayer
Anonymous
1450-1519 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec
Dionysiaca
Nonnus of Panopolis
400-500 CE
Greek
Erotika Pathemata
Parthenius of Nicaea
100-1 BCE
Greek