Shadow
161 books featuring this archetype
The Shadow condenses denied or disruptive potentials within the self or polity. Confronting it integrates strength and prevents projection onto others.
The Iliad
Homer
750-700 BCE
Greek
Epic of Gilgamesh
Sin-leqi-unninni
1200-1000 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Mahabharata
Vyasa
200 BCE-400 CE
Indian, Hindu
Poetic Edda
Anonymous
1270 CE
Germanic, Norse
Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson
1220 CE
Germanic, Norse
The Aeneid
Virgil
29-19 BCE
Roman
Beowulf
Anonymous
1000-1025 CE
Germanic, Anglo-Saxon
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
429-425 BCE
Greek
Oresteia
Aeschylus
458 BCE
Greek
Le Morte Darthur
Thomas Malory
1469-1485 CE
Germanic, English
Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en
1592 CE
East Asian, Chinese
Antigone
Sophocles
441 BCE
Greek
Apollodorus' Library
Pseudo-Apollodorus
1-200 CE
Greek
Theogony
Hesiod
700-600 BCE
Greek
Atrahasis
Anonymous
1700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Shahnameh
Ferdowsi
977-1010 CE
Persian
Avesta
Various
300-700 CE
Persian, Zoroastrian
The Song of Roland
Anonymous
1100-1150 CE
Germanic, Old French
The Bacchae
Euripides
407-405 BCE
Greek
The Descent of Ishtar
Anonymous
1800-1600 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
The Mabinogion
Anonymous
1100-1410 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Nibelungenlied
Anonymous
1200-1210 CE
Germanic
Völsunga saga
Anonymous
1250-1270 CE
Germanic, Norse
Medea
Euripides
431 BCE
Greek