caa a22 4500 378942530 CHVBK 20180305123656.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040722xx s 000 0 ger 10.1515/fabl.2004.45.3-4.311 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/fabl.2004.45.3-4.311 Papachristophorou Marilena 1. Athens. The Arabian Nights in Greece: A Comparative Survey of Greek Oral Tradition [Elektronische Daten] [Marilena Papachristophorou] This essay deals with common aspects between the Arabian Nights and the corpus of Greek folktales collected from oral tradition. It is introduced by a survey of the most important Greek translations of the Nights, from the second half of the eighteenth century up to the 1920s. The following comparison shows several degrees of exchange between the two narrative corpora. At the same time, various plots and themes in Greek popular tradition have often evolved in unexpected ways, probably because of a distinct cultural background and different ways of transmission. The further discussion focusses on the motif of the "Swan Maiden” and related tales as an interesting example of the interaction between the Nights and Greek oral tradition. © Walter de Gruyter Literary studies: general nationallicence Literary theory nationallicence Novels, other prose & writers nationallicence Fabula Walter de Gruyter 45/3-4(2004-07-22), 311-329 0014-6242 45:3-4<311 2004 45 fabl https://doi.org/10.1515/fabl.2004.45.3-4.311 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/fabl.2004.45.3-4.311 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Papachristophorou Marilena 1. Athens NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Fabula Walter de Gruyter 45/3-4(2004-07-22), 311-329 0014-6242 45:3-4<311 2004 45 fabl CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter