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aboutanancientenquiry · 2 years

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Herodotus and Poetry

“Herodotus, then, was not only deeply interested in the Muses’ arts but, when necessary, a scrupulous and intelligent reader of poetry. His complex stance can be summed up by returning to the opening of the Histories and noticing precisely where the story begins (1.2-6). Having promised to tell “what caused” the Greeks and Persians to fight, Herodotus begins by surveying a series of legends in which Eastern women were stolen by Greeks and vice versa. Phoenicians started everything, “they say,” when they kidnapped Io, a young woman from Argos in the Peloponnesus and ran off to Egypt. The story of Europa is then introduced as the Greek response, portraying her not on the back of a tauriform Zeus, but as a maid from Phoenician Tyre snatched away by Greeks. The story of Jason and Medea is told next, as the tale of a kidnapped princess from the Black Sea. Finally comes Paris, who carried the Greek beauty Helen off to Troy and so sparked the first war between East and West. Herodotus is noncommittal on the veracity of these traditions, many of which, despite being attributed to “learned Persians” and others, were surely circulating in Greek poems. As an ensemble, as a tit-for-tat series of narratives, their source is ultimately Herodotus’ talent for comparing traditions and arranging them in patterns, along with his pleasure in telling the tales he collected. But he was also a critical collector, and Herodotus breaks off this dip into the mythic past to ask who “actually” first attacked Greece. This he professes to be able to answer from his own knowledge: it was Croesus of Lydia (ca. 560-546 BCE). With this decidedly non-poetic figure, history has begun.”

Andrew Ford Herodotus and the Poets (conclusion), Appendix to “The Landmark Herodotus,” ed. R. Strassler - Princeton/Stanford Papers on Classics, available on https://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/ford/090606.pdf

Andrew Ford is Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature, Emeritus; Professor of Classics, Emeritus at the University of Princeton.

Muse Calliope (the Muse of epic poetry and of eloquence) on Helicon, Athenian red-figure lekythos C5th B.C., Staatliche Antikensammlungen . Source: https://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/MousaKalliope.html

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shiftaxisrecords · 2 years

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itsmctrumpet · 2 years

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(Andrew Ford)

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the-evil-clergyman · 4 days

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The faithful Beasts wept round the dead body of the Prince, from The Three Princes and their Beasts for Andrew Lang's The Violet Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford (1906)

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uwmspeccoll · 11 months

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Andrew Lang Fairy Stories

With this semester - and my internship - coming to a close, I wanted to hop back into my wheelhouse for the remainder of my time in Special Collections.

The Elf Maiden: And Other Stories is a collection of eleven tales edited by Scottish poet and novelist Andrew Lang (1844-1912) and illustrated by Henry J. Ford (1860-1941). The book was first published in London and New York by Longmans, Green, & Co. in 1906. The stories in this edition first appeared in three of Lang’s popular “Coloured" Fairy Books: The Yellow Fairy Book (1894), The Pink Fairy Book (1897), and the The Brown Fairy Book (1904). Lang’s Fairy Books were a series of 24 children’s fairy tales, the most popular being the 12 Coloured" Fairy Books, that Lang’s wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne (1851-1933) helped collaborate and translate.

Lang was considered to be one of the most versatile writers of his time. While he was a poet, historian, journalist, and critic, he was best known for his publications on folklore, mythology, and religion. Lang took an interest in folklore at a young age; he read John Ferguson McLennan before going to Oxford and was heavily influenced by Edward Burnett Tylor.

Henry J. Ford was a prolific and successful English artist and illustrator. While he began exhibiting with historically-themed paintings and beautiful landscapes at the Royal Academy of Art in 1982, it was his contributions to illustrated books that raised him to fame. I was excited to find that he was most famous for the illustrations he provided for Lang’s popular Fairy Books, which captivated an entire generation of children in Britain; these books saw translations and republications during the 1880’s and 1890’s.

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-- Elizabeth V., Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern

#Fairy Tales #Andrew Lang #The Elf Maiden #Henry J. Ford #Longmans Green & Co.#Lang's Fairy Books #Andrew Lang's“Coloured" Fairy Books #folktales #children's books #Historical Curriculum Collection #Elizabeth V.

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thebeautifulbook · 20 days

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