The werewolf in the ancient world

• Verfasst von: Ogden, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The werewolf in the ancient world
• Verf.angabe: Daniel Ogden
• Ausgabe: First edition
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2021
• Umfang: xiv, 261 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885431-9
• Schlagwörter: (s)Werwolf / (z)Geschichte 500 v. Chr.-500
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Ogden, Daniel, 1963 - : The werewolf in the ancient world. - First edition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021. - 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 261 pages)
• RVK-Notation: NG 1600
• K10plus-PPN: 1757129855

Abstract

Tales of the werewolf are by now well established as a rich sub-strand of the popular horror genre; less widely known is just how far back in time their provenance lies. This text shows how in antiquity werewolves thrived in a story-world shared by witches, ghosts, demons, and soul-flyers, and argues for the primary role of story-telling - as opposed to rites of passage - in the ancient world's general conceptualisation of the werewolf. It also seeks to demonstrate how the comparison of equally intriguing medieval tales can be used to fill in gaps in our knowledge of werewolf stories in the ancient world, thereby shedding new light on the origins of the modern phenomenon