Fairytale in the ancient world

Title:

Fairytale in the ancient world

Author:

Anderson, Graham.

Publication Information:

New York : Routledge, 2000.

Format:

Books

Carrier Type:

xi, 240 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject Term:

Mythology, Roman.

Mythology, Greek.

Fairy tales -- History and criticism.

Classical literature -- History and criticism.

Fairy tales -- Greece -- History and criticism.

Fairy tales -- Italy -- Rome -- History and criticism.

ISBN:

9780415237024

9780415237031

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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.

Preface	p. ix
List of abbreviations	p. xi
1 Introduction	p. 1
2 The Cinderella story in antiquity	p. 24
3 Snow White and related tales	p. 43
4 Cupid and Psyche and Beauty and the Beast	p. 61
5 The Obstacle Flight	p. 72
6 The 'innocent slandered maid'	p. 83
7 Butchering girls: Red Riding Hood and Bluebeard	p. 92
8 Magicians and their allies	p. 103
9 Between living and dead	p. 112
10 Two Homeric tales: The Cyclops and Ares and Aphrodite	p. 123
11 Some moral parables: The Pied Piper, The Three Wishes, Rumpelstiltskin, The Singing Bone	p. 133
12 Fairytale into romance	p. 145
13 Folktales and society: some reflections on ancient evidence	p. 158
14 Conclusions	p. 167
Appendix 1 Some difficult cases	p. 173
Appendix 2 Two ancient hero tales	p. 183
Appendix 3 Thrushbeard and The Starmaidens	p. 188
Appendix 4 AT Type 552 and the Orestes story	p. 193
Notes	p. 195
Bibliography	p. 220
Index of folktale types	p. 228
General index	p. 230

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