Fairytale in the ancient world
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Fairytale in the ancient world
New York : Routledge, 2000
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 10 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-227) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this, the first modern study of the ancient fairytale, Graham Anderson asks whether the familiar children's fairytale of today existed in the ancient world. He examines texts from the classical period and finds many stories which resemble those we know today, including:
* a Jewish Egyptian Cinderella
* a Snow White whose enemy is the goddess Artemis
* a Pied Piper at Troy.
He puts forward many previously unsuspected candidates as classical variants of the modern fairytale and argues that the degree of violence and cruelty in the ancient tales means they must have been meant for adults.
Table of Contents
Preface, List of abbreviations, 1 Introduction, 2 The Cinderella story in antiquity, 3 Snow White and related tales, 4 Cupid and Psyche and Beauty and the Beast, 5 The Obstacle Flight, 6 The 'innocent slandered maid', 7 Butchering girls: Red Riding Hood and Bluebeard, 8 Magicians and their allies, 9 Between living and dead, 10 Two Homeric tales: The Cyclops and Ares and Aphrodite, 11 Some moral parables: The Pied Piper, The Three Wishes, Rumpelstiltskin, The Singing Bone, 12 Fairytale into romance, 13 Folktales and society: some reflections on ancient evidence, 14 Conclusions, Appendix 1 Some difficult cases, Appendix 2 Two ancient hero tales, Appendix 3 Thrushbeard and The Starmaidens, Appendix 4 AT Type 552 and the Orestes story, Notes, Bibliography, Index of folktale types, General index
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