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 • Greek
The Odyssey
Homer • Greek
Epic of Gilgamesh
Sin-leqi-unninni • Mesopotamian
Mahabharata
Vyasa • Indian
Poetic Edda
Anonymous • Germanic
Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson • Germanic
Metamorphoses
Ovid • Roman
Book of the Dead
Anonymous • Egyptian
Early Upanishads
Anonymous • Indian
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles • Greek
Le Morte Darthur
Thomas Malory • Germanic
Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en • East Asian
Kojiki
O no Yasumaro • East Asian
Apollodorus' Library
Pseudo-Apollodorus • Greek
Theogony
Hesiod • Greek
Atharvaveda
Anonymous • Indian
Heart Sutra
Anonymous • Indian
Lotus Sutra
Anonymous • Indian
Atrahasis
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
Shahnameh
Ferdowsi • Persian
Avesta
Various • Persian
The Song of Roland
Anonymous • Germanic
The Bacchae
Euripides • Greek
The Descent of Ishtar
Anonymous • Mesopotamian