Crown
22 books featuring this symbol
The crown signifies legitimate sovereignty conferred by divine or ancestral sanction. It externalizes the burden of rule and the ruler’s separateness.
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles • Greek
Medea
Euripides • Greek
The History of the Kings of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth • Celtic
The Tale of the Two Brothers
Anonymous • Egyptian
Trojan Women
Euripides • Greek
Sumerian King List
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
Book of the Heavenly Cow
Anonymous • Egyptian
Theseus
Plutarch • Greek
Nergal and Ereshkigal
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
The Birth Legend of Sargon
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
Kārnāmag-ī Ardashīr-ī Pābagān
Anonymous • Persian
The Life of Merlin
Geoffrey of Monmouth • Celtic
Ion
Euripides • Greek
Library of History
Diodorus Siculus • Greek
Tiruvilaiyadal Puranam
Paranjothi Munivar • Indian
Relación de Michoacán
Anonymous • Mesoamerican
Enmerkar and Ensuhgirana
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
Menog-i Khrad
Anonymous • Persian
De Astronomica
Hyginus • Roman
Catalogue of Women
Hesiod • Greek
Song of Hedammu
Anonymous • Levantine
On the Syrian Goddess
Lucian of Samosata • Greek