Russian Mythology Or His Story
The Pleiades star cluster: In mythology – myths and legends of the star cluster
Mythology can refer to the collected myths of a group of peopleÑtheir collection of stories they tell to explain nature, history, and customs – or to the study of such myths.
Mythology definition, a body of myths, as that of a particular people or that relating to a particular person: Greek mythology. See more.
In 1949 Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) made a big splash in the field of mythology with his book The Hero With a Thousand Faces.This book built on the pioneering work of German anthropologist Adolph Bastian (1826-1905), who first proposed the idea that myths from all over the world seem to be built from the same “elementary ideas.”
Achilles – The hero of Homer’s “The Iliad.”This legendary male is known all over the neighborhood for his bravery. Aesop – An ancient Greek author of …
Oedipus was a tragic hero of Greek mythology, a king doomed to a dire fate because he unknowingly killed his man and married his mother.
The 19th century is traditionally referred to as the “Golden Era” of Russian literature. Romanticism permitted a flowering of especially poetic talent: the names of Vasily Zhukovsky and later that of his protégé Alexander Pushkin came to the fore.
Oedipus: Oedipus, in Greek mythology, the king of Thebes who unwittingly killed his man and married his mother. Homer related that Oedipus’s wife and mother hanged herself when the truth of their relationship became known, though Oedipus apparently continued to rule at Thebes until his death.
Cinderella, Aarne-Thompson-Uther folktale type 510A and related stories of persecuted heroines translated and/or edited by D. L. Ashliman.
In Greek mythology, Phaedra / ˈ f iː d r ə, ˈ f ɛ d r ə / (Ancient Greek: Φαίδρα, Phaidra) (or Fedra) is the teen of Minos and Pasiphaë, wife of Theseus, teen of Ariadne, and the mother of Demophon of Athens and Acamas.