Queen
20 books featuring this archetype
The Queen embodies sovereignty through alliance, lineage, and stewardship. She mediates courtly networks and dynastic continuity.
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
429-425 BCE
Greek
Oresteia
Aeschylus
458 BCE
Greek
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
Anonymous
900-1000 CE
East Asian, Japanese
Argonautica
Apollonius of Rhodes
200-100 BCE
Greek
Trojan Women
Euripides
415 BCE
Greek
The Tale of the Doomed Prince
Anonymous
1300-1100 BCE
Egyptian
Alcestis
Euripides
438 BCE
Greek
Hecuba
Euripides
424 BCE
Greek
Gilgamesh and Huwawa
Anonymous
2000-1700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
Nergal and Ereshkigal
Anonymous
1400-700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
The Life of Merlin
Geoffrey of Monmouth
1148-1150 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Andromache
Euripides
425-420 BCE
Greek
Orphic Hymns
Orphic tradition
100-300 CE
Greek
Divyāvadāna
Anonymous
100-400 CE
Indian, Buddhist
Hausa Cosmology
Oral Tradition
1800-2000 CE
African, Hausa
Commentary on the Aeneid
Servius
400 CE
Roman
The Colloquy of the Ancients
Anonymous
1200-1220 CE
Celtic, Irish
The Tale of Mac Dathó's Pig
Anonymous
1100-1200 CE
Celtic, Irish
The Wasting Sickness of Cú Chulainn
Anonymous
1100-1400 CE
Celtic, Irish
Ragnars sona þáttr
Anonymous
1200-1300 CE
Germanic, Norse