Item
Altägyptische Tiergeschichte und Fabel: Gestalt und Strahlkraft
- Title
- en_US Altägyptische Tiergeschichte und Fabel: Gestalt und Strahlkraft
- Description
- en_US Language note: German
- en_US Fifth unchanged edition
- Emma Brunner-Traut
- Creator
- en_US Brunner-Traut, Emma See all items with this value
- Date
- 2022-10-13T19:19:23Z
- 2016-08
- en_US 1977
- Date Available
- 2022-10-13T19:19:23Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1968
- Abstract
- en_US I do believe that this is one of the books I found when I discovered that this favorite bookshop in Heidelberg was closing down. A note on the verso of the title-page indicates that this is a fuller version of a book first published in 1959 as Saeculum Band X. Apparently WBD published it in an expanded form in 1977 and has republished now five times. I wonder if it might have been originally a dissertation or a Habilitationschrift. This is the kind of tantalizing book I would love to dive into, but it would open up so many questions and lines of inquiry! For now I can say that I find it touching on many Aesopic fables. Among them are "The Cat and the Vulture" as very similar to the Aesopic "The Fox and the Eagle" (35-36); LM -- and "The Lion and Man" (37-39); and BM (40). I believe that the author is saying that Greek fables that mention the crocodile or ostrich must be derived from Egyptian stories. The author's thesis vis a vis Greek fables is hinted at already on 59: Greek fables are secularized Egyptian myths. I look forward to getting back to this book whenever I get to look into the "source" studies it represents well. Do not miss the 37 great drawings in the appendix!
- Identifier
- en_US 12433 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US ger
- Publisher
- en_US Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft
- en_US Darmstadt, Germany
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books