Altägyptische Tiergeschichte und Fabel: Gestalt und Strahlkraft
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Brunner-Traut, Emma
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1968
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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!
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