Founding Myth
13 books featuring this theme
A founding myth legitimizes institutions, cities, or peoples by narrating origins. It binds law and territory to sacralized beginnings.
Nihon Shoki
Prince Toneri
720 CE
East Asian, Japanese
The History of the Kings of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth
1136 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Romulus and Remus
Livy
27-25 BCE
Roman
Classic of Documents
Various
600-200 BCE
East Asian, Chinese
Primary Chronicle
Nestor
1113-1118 CE
Slavic
Samguk Yusa
Iryeon
1281-1285 CE
East Asian, Korean
Theseus
Plutarch
100 CE
Greek
Library of History
Diodorus Siculus
60-30 BCE
Greek
Codex Chimalpopoca
Anonymous
1608-1615 CE
Mesoamerican, Aztec
Roman Antiquities
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
20-7 BCE
Roman
Gesta Hungarorum
Anonymous
1200-1210 CE
Slavic, Hungarian
Hymns to Enki
Anonymous
2100-1600 BCE
Mesopotamian, Sumerian
Commentary on the Aeneid
Servius
400 CE
Roman