Friday, August 26, 2016

COMING SOON: The Myth of the Mythical Arthur

Seems I may need to deal with the myth of the mythical Arthur after all!  While my lost essay on Thomas Green's CONCEPTS OF ARTHUR would have sufficed, there are now several other proponents of a mythical Arthur underlying a later historicized figure. There are scholars who are holding firm to this position, but now amateurs and "neopagans"/New Agers are quickly jumping on the bandwagon.  A couple examples of the latter are:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18392655-arthur-the-god

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17993430-king-arthur-and-the-gods-of-the-round-table

In the coming week I will be posting a fairly detailed critical examination of the Mythical Arthur theory.  

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