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The traditional Diodoran scholarship has been challenged in the last decades by a revisionist approach, which concentrates on Diodorus Siculus’ contribution rather than on his lost sources. Building on that approach, this book focuses on the Bibliotheke’s first pentad, which has usually been neglected as a subject of research, and explores the author’s depictions of journeys made by gods and culture-heroes. A thorough investigation of his historiographical methods and his representation of mythical figures demonstrates that the mythological narrative is not only an essential part of his universal history, but also an important supplement to our knowledge of Hellenistic civilization, especially its mentality and historical geography.

Diodorus. --- Diodorus, Siculus. Bibliotheca historica. Book 1-5. --- History, Ancient - Historiography. --- History, Ancient -- Historiography. --- Mythology, Greek - Historiography. --- Mythology, Greek -- Historiography. --- Mythology, Greek, in literature. --- History, Ancient --- Mythology, Greek --- Mythology, Greek, in literature --- History & Archaeology --- History - General --- Historiography --- Historiography. --- Diodorus, --- Greek mythology --- History, Ancient - Historiography --- Mythology, Greek - Historiography --- Diodorus, - Siculus. - Bibliotheca historica. - Book 1-5

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This highly engaging volume by one of Korea’s leading scholars of comparative mythology – the the first study of its kind in English – provides a valuable introduction to centuries-old beliefs, myths and folk tales relating to Cosmology and Flood, Birth and Agriculture, Messengers of the Underworld, Shamans, Disease, Good Fortune, Love and Family, Gods of Village Shrines, and Heroes. Containing thirty traditional stories, the book is fully illustrated throughout and contains a wide variety of Korean art, including rare shamanist paintings, as well as the work of some contemporary Korean artists. All the stories, based on Korean oral tradition, have been retold by the author according to their main plot and meaning because the original texts’ songs by shamans, containing many obsolete words and obscure idioms, are not easily understood today. The original title and source, including text notes, are provided at the end of each story. The author’s Introduction sets out the historical background and significance of the myths that appear here. He also provides full details of each of the Korean gods and their roles in mythology. While being a welcome addition to the literature on Korean culture for the non-specialist, An Illustrated Guide to Korean Mythology also provides an invaluable reference source for scholars and researchers in the fields of East Asian Mythology and Anthropology, as well as Korean History, Religion and Literature.

Legends --- Tales --- Mythology, Korean --- K9052.10 --- K9732 --- Korea: Religion -- general aspects -- philosophy of religion, theology, mythology --- Korea: Literature -- storytelling, oral literature, tales and legends --- Korean mythology --- Mythology, Korean. --- Legends - Korea --- Tales - Korea

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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

Mythology, Roman --- Mythology, Greek --- Classical literature --- Fairy tales --- History and criticism --- -Fairy tales --- -Mythology, Greek --- Roman mythology --- Greek mythology --- Fairytales --- Children's stories --- Tales --- Literature, Classical --- Literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- Mythology, Greek. --- Mythology, Roman. --- History and criticism. --- Classical literature - History and criticism --- Fairy tales - Greece - History and criticism --- Fairy tales - Rome - History and criticism --- MYTHOLOGIE CLASSIQUE --- CONTES DE FEES --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE

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This book examines the figure of the returning warrior as depicted in the myths of several ancient and medieval Indo-European cultures. In these cultures, the returning warrior was often portrayed as a figure rendered dysfunctionally destructive or isolationist by the horrors of combat. This mythic portrayal of the returned warrior is consistent with modern studies of similar behavior among soldiers returning from war. Roger Woodard's research identifies a common origin of these myths in the ancestral proto-Indo-European culture, in which rites were enacted to enable warriors to reintegrate themselves as functional members of society. He also compares the Italic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic mythic traditions surrounding the warrior, paying particular attention to Roman myth and ritual, notably to the etiologies and rites of the July festivals of the Poplifugia and Nonae Caprotinae and to the October rites of the Sororium Tigillum.

Indo-European antiquities --- Soldiers in literature --- Mythology, Roman, in literature --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Indo-European antiquities. --- Soldiers in literature. --- Mythology, Roman, in literature.

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Un phénomène nouveau est sur le point de modifier en profondeur la représentation traditionnelle, vieille de plus de deux siècles, de la création littéraire : l'atelier d'écriture. Entre une pratique scripturale de plus en plus ouverte et un système qui repose encore sur une conception sacrée de la littérature, du moins en France, une situation inédite s'énonce : les mythes de l'écriture et de l'écrivain sont-ils en passe d'être détrônés ? Afin de mieux comprendre la faveur dont jouissent les ateliers depuis quelques années, cet ouvrage interroge la place que nous accordons encore aux mythes et aux rites de l'écriture. Portant sur l'expérience particulière de l'écriture, de la naissance de la vocation au phénomène de l'inspiration, observant la relation que les écrivains entretiennent avec une création tissée de rituels, de représentations anciennes et de techniques, "Le roman de la création" trace les changements, entre mythes et pratiques, qui s'esquissent dans le champ littéraire actuel.

French literature --- Myth --- Mythology --- History and criticism --- French literature - History and criticism --- Myth. --- Mythology. --- Myths --- Legends --- Religion --- Religions --- Folklore --- Gods --- Demythologization --- God