King Arthur in Antiquity

King Arthur in Antiquity
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 221
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ISBN-10 : 9781134372027
ISBN-13 : 1134372027
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Download or read book King Arthur in Antiquity written by Graham Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although King Arthur's identity is so frequently debated, he is almost always set somewhere in the Celtic Britain of the Early Christian Era. This original and wide-ranging study argues that the roots of the Arthur legend are to be found in classical antiquity and that the traditional British Arthur is a much later imitation. Graham Anderson examines hitherto neglected evidence for two much older figures, known to classical writers as early kings of Arcadia and Lydia, who supposedly flourished more than a millennium earlier than traditional accounts suggest. He outlines the correspondence betw.

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