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Aetiological accounts appear sparsely in the Homeric epics—the Iliad and the Odyssey—but are more frequent in later archaic literature, such as the Homeric Hymns and Hesiod's Theogony. By the Classical period , aetiological aspects were common features of Attic tragedy and epinician poetry .
New York: Penguin Books, 1976. Campbell, Joseph. Transformations of Myth through Time. New York: Harper and Row, 1990. Darshan, Guy. The Origins of the Foundation Stories Genre in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Eastern Mediterranean, JBL, 133,4 (2014), 689–709. Darshan, Guy. Stories of Origins in the Bible and Ancient Mediterranean Literature ...
The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories is a 2004 book by Christopher Booker containing a Jung-influenced analysis of stories and their psychological meaning. Booker worked on the book for 34 years.
Etiology (/ ˌ iː t i ˈ ɒ l ə dʒ i /; alternatively spelled aetiology or ætiology) is the study of causation or origination. The word is derived from the Greek word αἰτιολογία (aitiología), meaning "giving a reason for" (from αἰτία (aitía) 'cause' and -λογία () 'study of'). [1]
In science and philosophy, a just-so story is an untestable narrative explanation for a cultural practice, a biological trait, or behavior of humans or other animals. The pejorative [1] nature of the expression is an implicit criticism that reminds the listener of the fictional and unprovable nature of such an explanation.
Two examples of Japanese cycles are: the Matter of Japan (Kojiki, Nihon Shoki, etc.) and the Genji-Heike Cycle (The Tale of the Heike, Gikeiki about Minamoto no Yoshitsune, etc.). Also popular are the Soga Brothers and Forty-Seven Ronin cycles. The Matter of Rome (or the "cycle of Rome"), which centers on Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great
An unusual example is The Stand wherein he uses lyrics from certain songs to express the metaphor used in a particular part. Epigraph, consisting of an excerpt from the book itself, William Morris's The House of the Wolfings. Jack London uses the first stanza of John Myers O'Hara's poem "Atavism" as the epigraph to The Call of the Wild.
Example: Agamemnon (play) Falling prey to cruelty/misfortune. an unfortunate; a master or a misfortune; The unfortunate suffers from misfortune and/or at the hands of the master. Example: Job (biblical figure) Revolt. a tyrant; a conspirator; The tyrant, a cruel power, is plotted against by the conspirator. Example: Julius Caesar (play) Daring ...