When the King Must Die: Fairy Tales and Bronze Age Memory (Beneath the Ancient World: Strategic Readings of Ancient Texts, Band 3) - Softcover

Legge, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798235552203

Verlag: RomaAquila, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

This is a public facing scholarly living book written by an archaeologist. It examines Bronze Age ritual and mythic motifs preserved in fairy tales, legends, and oral tradition What if the fairytales we tell today carry echoes of Bronze Age kings and sacrifices? When the King Must Die: Fairytales and Bronze Age Memory is a work of nonfiction written by an archaeologist. It explores how motifs found in later narratives-including fairytales, biblical stories, Homeric epics, and ancient legends-preserve echoes of Bronze Age oral traditions. These traditions often retain historical cores, even when later embellished with supernatural elements. This volume forms part of an ongoing project; further essays and developments will appear in future volumes. Drawing on archaeology, cultural history, biblical accounts, ancient legends, and comparative literature, the book examines themes such as sacrifice, honour killings, infant exposure, cannibalism, child royalty in hiding, and the rise and fall of hegemonies-patterns reflected both in Bronze Age sources and in the stories that survived them. For readers interested in mythology, oral tradition, and the ancient Mediterranean world, this book offers a scholarly yet accessible exploration of how deep cultural memories shape the tales we still tell today.

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Elizabeth Legge is a Classical Archaeologist and Doctor of Medicine candidate at a European university. She achieved her Master's degree in Classical Archaeology at the University of Pisa, Italy and will be pursuing a PhD in the field. She was awarded her Bachelor of Arts in Classical Studies and Bachelor of Sciences in Integrated Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She has travelled extensively to all continents since childhood and lived in many countries. She is Australian, Canadian and half English.

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• Verlag: RomaAquila
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798235552203
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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