Fairytale in the ancient world /
The first modern study of the ancient fairytale, it bridges a major gap between the study of the ancient world and the wider world of oral culture, and will be of immense value and interest to students of a wide variety of disciplines.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2000.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0203170350 9780203170359 0203132459 9780203132456 9780415237024 0415237025 9780415237031 0415237033 1280327987 9781280327988 9786610327980 661032798X |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; The Cinderella story in antiquity; Snow White and related tales; Cupid and Psyche and Beauty and the Beast; The Obstacle Flight; The 'innocent slandered maid'; Butchering girls: Red Riding Hood and Bluebeard; Magicians and their allies; Between living and dead; Two Homeric tales: The Cyclops and Ares and Aphrodite; Some moral parables: The Pied Piper, The Three Wishes, Rumpelstiltskin, The Singing Bone; Fairytale into romance; Folktales and society: some reflections on ancient evidence; Conclusions.