Kingship
174 books featuring this theme
Kingship is sacralized rulership mediating between gods and people. It legitimizes law, warfare, and fertility through ritual and genealogy.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Sin-leqi-unninni
1200-1000 BCE
Mesopotamian, Akkadian
Mahabharata
Vyasa
200 BCE-400 CE
Indian, Hindu
Ramayana
Valmiki
300-100 BCE
Indian, Hindu
Rigveda
Anonymous
1200-900 BCE
Indian, Hindu
Enuma Elish
Anonymous
1100-1000 BCE
Mesopotamian, Babylonian
One Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
1300-1800 CE
Arabic
Beowulf
Anonymous
1000-1025 CE
Germanic, Anglo-Saxon
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
429-425 BCE
Greek
Popol Vuh
Anonymous
1554-1703 CE
Mesoamerican, Mayan
Le Morte Darthur
Thomas Malory
1469-1485 CE
Germanic, English
Kojiki
O no Yasumaro
712 CE
East Asian, Japanese
Nihon Shoki
Prince Toneri
720 CE
East Asian, Japanese
Baal Cycle
Anonymous
1300 BCE
Levantine, Ugaritic
Shahnameh
Ferdowsi
977-1010 CE
Persian
Avesta
Various
300-700 CE
Persian, Zoroastrian
The Song of Roland
Anonymous
1100-1150 CE
Germanic, Old French
Classic of Poetry
Anonymous
400-200 BCE
East Asian, Chinese
Jātaka Tales
Anonymous
100 BCE-500 CE
Indian, Buddhist
Kebra Nagast
Anonymous
1314-1321 CE
African, Ethiopian
The History of the Kings of Britain
Geoffrey of Monmouth
1136 CE
Celtic, Welsh
Investiture of the Gods
Xu Zhonglin
1560-1620 CE
East Asian, Chinese
Records of the Grand Historian
Sima Qian
109-91 BCE
East Asian, Chinese
The Contendings of Horus and Seth
Anonymous
1180-1070 BCE
Egyptian
Bhagavata Purana
Anonymous
800-1000 CE
Indian, Hindu