LEADER 03636oam 2200769I 450 001 9910783656203321 005 20230422044316.0 010 $a1-134-56045-1 010 $a0-203-13245-9 010 $a0-203-17035-0 010 $a1-280-32798-7 010 $a1-134-56046-X 010 $a9786610327980 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203132456 035 $a(CKB)1000000000249865 035 $a(EBL)165858 035 $a(OCoLC)560005195 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000296099 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11223154 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000296099 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10322426 035 $a(PQKB)10537233 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000153016 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12046373 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000153016 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10391881 035 $a(PQKB)11580496 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC165858 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL165858 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10054089 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL32798 035 $a(OCoLC)50675781 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000249865 100 $a20180706d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFairytale in the ancient world /$fGraham Anderson 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (253 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-23703-3 311 $a0-415-23702-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 220-227) and indexes. 327 $aBook 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 327 $aSome difficult casesTwo ancient hero tales; Thrushbeard and The Starmaidens; AT Type 552 and the Orestes story; Notes; Bibliography; Index of folktale types; General index 330 $aIn 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 606 $aMythology, Roman 606 $aMythology, Greek 606 $aFairy tales$zGreece$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFairy tales$zRome$xHistory and criticism 606 $aClassical literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aMythology, Roman. 615 0$aMythology, Greek. 615 0$aFairy tales$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFairy tales$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aClassical literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a292.1/3 700 $aAnderson$b Graham.$0156208 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910783656203321 996 $aFairytale in the ancient world$9669041 997 $aUNINA