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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.
* 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.
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Graham Anderson is Professor of Classics at the University of Kent. HE has written studies on Lucian and Philostratus, and on fiction in the ancient world, as well as Holy Men in the Early Roman Empire(1994) and The Second Sophistic (1993) both published by Routledge.
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'This is an enchanting book in all senses of the word .. it is a real and unusual treat for the enquiring mind.' - JACT Review
'This intrepid reader of obscure Classical texts and explorer in the wider world of oral tales from lands far away and times long ago ... has brought us back a provocative study.'- Scholia: Studies in Classical Antiquity
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