Art/Ancient literature
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Art ＞ Ancient literature
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In this chapter under this title, we would like to introduce the history of the world looking for the roots of the literature.
The world's oldest civilization is said to have Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh that was born there.
Indus civilization is comparable to the old Sumerian civilization. Was used in which the Dravidian languages and character seems to be based in India. Of course there should also be called literature had. What is known as the old Indian literature, but written in the Sanskrit Mahabharata myth vast Indian language with Aryan system after the Indus civilization (all originals, Volume 18, 100,000 stanzas, more than 200,000 lines be. This is equivalent to four times longer than the Bible.) there.
One of the world's four major civilizations, myths of Heliopolis in Egypt has a large group of myths. What may be included within the literary myth problem, but if is true what is written there, whether fantasy, and selling people's hearts, or give a lesson story iconic mean, I would be included in the broad sense of the literature.
The Chinese myth cited the same reason.
Aegean civilization is a civilization or an old Cretan civilization (c. 3600 BC). This civilization has character, has such a good myth Minotaur again.
Greek mythology and there. The story of gods and heroes of Greek mythology known as the 15th century BC started approx.
Not only these civilizations, myths and legends from around the world with the ethnic groups is also an excellent literary tales, can be said. As Grimm's Fairy Tales, after the writer's sentence after the original tales were sometimes seen as a literary first. It's a story not to have been perfected by our ancestors no name, "What Is Literature?" It is a difficult question.
