Wise Old Man
179 books featuring this archetype
The Wise Old Man concentrates guidance, interpretation, and initiation. He supplies the key insight or tool at decisive junctures.
The Iliad
Homer
750-700 BCE
Greek
The Odyssey
Homer
700-600 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
Metamorphoses
Ovid
1 BCE-8 CE
Roman
Book of the Dead
Anonymous
1550-50 BCE
Egyptian
Early Upanishads
Anonymous
300 BCE-200 CE
Indian, Hindu
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
429-425 BCE
Greek
Le Morte Darthur
Thomas Malory
1469-1485 CE
Germanic, English
Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en
1592 CE
East Asian, Chinese
Kojiki
O no Yasumaro
712 CE
East Asian, Japanese
Apollodorus' Library
Pseudo-Apollodorus
1-200 CE
Greek
Theogony
Hesiod
700-600 BCE
Greek
Atharvaveda
Anonymous
1-1000 CE
Indian, Hindu
Heart Sutra
Anonymous
400-700 CE
Indian, Buddhist
Lotus Sutra
Anonymous
100-300 CE
Indian, Buddhist
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