Martyr
19 books featuring this archetype
The Martyr witnesses to conviction through voluntary suffering or death. This figure transforms defeat into symbolic authority.
Antigone
Sophocles • Greek
Lotus Sutra
Anonymous • Indian
Shahnameh
Ferdowsi • Persian
The Song of Roland
Anonymous • Germanic
The Bacchae
Euripides • Greek
Nibelungenlied
Anonymous • Germanic
Jātaka Tales
Anonymous • Indian
Investiture of the Gods
Xu Zhonglin • East Asian
Hebrew Bible
Various • Levantine
Heimskringla
Snorri Sturluson • Germanic
Hippolytus
Euripides • Greek
Primary Chronicle
Nestor • Slavic
Silappatikaram
Ilango Adigal • Indian
Buile Shuibhne
Anonymous • Celtic
Trachiniae
Sophocles • Greek
Annals of the Cakchiquels
Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá and Francisco Díaz • Mesoamerican
Roman Antiquities
Dionysius of Halicarnassus • Roman
Codex Vindobonensis
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Húsdrápa
Ulf Uggason • Germanic