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
441 BCE
Greek
Lotus Sutra
Anonymous
100-300 CE
Indian, Buddhist
Shahnameh
Ferdowsi
977-1010 CE
Persian
The Song of Roland
Anonymous
1100-1150 CE
Germanic, Old French
The Bacchae
Euripides
407-405 BCE
Greek
Nibelungenlied
Anonymous
1200-1210 CE
Germanic
Jātaka Tales
Anonymous
100 BCE-500 CE
Indian, Buddhist
Investiture of the Gods
Xu Zhonglin
1560-1620 CE
East Asian, Chinese
Hebrew Bible
Various
1000-200 BCE
Levantine, Hebrew
Heimskringla
Snorri Sturluson
1220-1230 CE
Germanic, Norse
Hippolytus
Euripides
428 BCE
Greek
Primary Chronicle
Nestor
1113-1118 CE
Slavic
Silappatikaram
Ilango Adigal
200-500 CE
Indian, Hindu
Buile Shuibhne
Anonymous
1100-1200 CE
Celtic, Irish
Trachiniae
Sophocles
450-430 BCE
Greek
Annals of the Cakchiquels
Francisco Hernández Arana Xajilá and Francisco Díaz
1570-1600 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan
Roman Antiquities
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
20-7 BCE
Roman
Codex Vindobonensis
Anonymous
1200-1521 CE
Mesoamerican, Mixtec
Húsdrápa
Ulf Uggason
1200-1300 CE
Germanic, Norse