History of friendship
Gilgamesh and his friend Enkidu fight a monster, on an Assyrian cylinder seal from the 600s BC Why were friends important? Friends were very important to people in the ancient [...]
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Tristan and Isolde – King Arthur’s Round Table
Tristan and Isolde, in a German woodcut (1400s AD) In the story, Isolde was a princess in Ireland, and a great healer. She was the best doctor in the land. One day this guy [...]
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Knights of the Round Table – Medieval England
Lancelot to the rescue! Notice the importance of his strong steel sword. (Knights of the Round Table) A framing device In the early Middle Ages, poets and story-tellers were telling a lot [...]
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Lancelot and Guinevere – Medieval Romance
Guinevere and Arthur Queen Guinevere first appears in written stories about 1325 AD in the Welsh story Culhwch ac Olwen, as Arthur's queen. In later medieval stories, she's the daughter of King Leodegrance, and [...]
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King Arthur stories – Knights of the Round Table
King Arthur hunting, 1300s AD (British Library, London) Stories about King Arthur may be based on a real man who ruled southern England about 450 AD, just after the Romans left, but nobody knows anything [...]
