Folktales of Greece por Georgios A. Megas - 1970

University of Chicago Press, 1970. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The University of Chicago Press, 1977. Trade paperback in very good condition.. Soft cover. Very Good.

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… Ler mais