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I. The Circle of Myths: Knew Not, While My Father's Brother Dwelt in The Mountains. in My City Azuripani
I. The Circle of Myths: Knew Not, While My Father's Brother Dwelt in The Mountains. in My City Azuripani
Probably the oldest transmitted hero myth in our possession is derived from the period
of the foundation of Babylonia (about 2800 B.C.) and concerns the birth history of its
founder, Sargon the First. 2 The literal translation
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exposed children, Daphnis and Chloe. The more recent Italian pastorals are likewise
very frequently based upon the exposure of children, who are raised as shepherds by p.
15 their foster parents, but are later recognized by the true parents, through identifying
marks received at the time of their exposure. To the same set belong the family history
in Grimmelshausen's Limplizissimus (1665), in Jean Paul's Titan (1800), as well as
certain forms of the Robinson stories and Cavalier romances (compare Wrzbach's
Introduction to Hesse's edition of Don Quixote).