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
429-425 BCE
Greek
Medea
Euripides
431 BCE
Greek
The History of the Kings of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth
1136 CE
Celtic, Welsh
The Tale of the Two Brothers
Anonymous
1200 BCE
Egyptian
Trojan Women
Euripides
415 BCE
Greek
Sumerian King List
Anonymous
2000-1800 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
Book of the Heavenly Cow
Anonymous
1290-1150 BCE
Egyptian
Theseus
Plutarch
100 CE
Greek
Nergal and Ereshkigal
Anonymous
1400-700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
The Birth Legend of Sargon
Anonymous
700 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Kārnāmag-ī Ardashīr-ī Pābagān
Anonymous
500-700 CE
Persian
The Life of Merlin
Geoffrey of Monmouth
1148-1150 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Ion
Euripides
412 BCE
Greek
Library of History
Diodorus Siculus
60-30 BCE
Greek
Tiruvilaiyadal Puranam
Paranjothi Munivar
1500-1600 CE
Indian, Hindu
Relación de Michoacán
Anonymous
1540-1550 CE
Mesoamerican, Purepecha
Enmerkar and Ensuhgirana
Anonymous
2100-1800 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
Menog-i Khrad
Anonymous
500-900 CE
Persian, Zoroastrian
De Astronomica
Hyginus
27 BCE-200 CE
Roman
Catalogue of Women
Hesiod
300 BCE-200 CE
Greek
Song of Hedammu
Anonymous
1400-1300 BCE
Levantine, Hittite
On the Syrian Goddess
Lucian of Samosata
100-200 CE
Greek, undefined