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- Title Folktales of Greece
- Author Georgios A. Megas
- Binding Paperback
- Pages (57), 287 pages.
- Language ENG
- Publisher The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
- Date May 1, 1977
- ISBN 9780226517865
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Folktales of Greece.: Translated by Helen Colaclides. Foreword by Richard M. Dorson.
by Megas, Georgios A. [Ed]
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1977. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1977. 13 x 20.5cm. (57), 287 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear including some bumping to corners. Inscribed with previous owner's name, some text annotations. [Folktales of the World, No. 10, Editor: R.M. Dorson]. For over two thousand years the folklore of Greece has cast its spell over the Western world. Georgios A. Megas perceives a continuity between the peasant tales of today and the myths of antiquity. Nowhere are the links between nationalism and the study of folklore more evident than in Greece, emerging as a nation-state in 1821 after almost four centuries of eclipse under the Turkish empire. Greek folklorists have sought to build a bridge back to Homer and Herodotus by demonstrating that many folk tales still in currency were already a part of the oral tradition that these men themselves inherited. These folk narratives have been faithfully recorded in the vernacular of the people and retain…
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