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Traditionally , we are used to first meeting the heroes of erotic romances as young men . Their initiation is a scene which we would expect somewhere near the beginning of a romance of the more traditional type.28 Moreover ...
Traditionally , we are used to first meeting the heroes of erotic romances as young men . Their initiation is a scene which we would expect somewhere near the beginning of a romance of the more traditional type.28 Moreover ...
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The initial part of this tale is normally known in a masculine version where a young prince mocks an old woman and consequently he is cursed with the longing for Trisevgeni ( ThriceNoble ) . He therefore takes off in search of her ...
The initial part of this tale is normally known in a masculine version where a young prince mocks an old woman and consequently he is cursed with the longing for Trisevgeni ( ThriceNoble ) . He therefore takes off in search of her ...
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She has to deliver and nurse a child and to marry a young man . But when it is taken into account that this child , and later young man , is a snake that eats the hands of the midwives , the breasts of the nurses and , when married ...
She has to deliver and nurse a child and to marry a young man . But when it is taken into account that this child , and later young man , is a snake that eats the hands of the midwives , the breasts of the nurses and , when married ...
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Women and gender roles in Modern Greek folktales | 21 |
a question of | 43 |
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| Title | Kampos: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek, Issue 7 |
| Contributor | University of Cambridge. Modern Greek Section |
| Publisher | Modern Greek Section, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge, 1999 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Apr 2008 |
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