Boucquey Thierry (General Editor). Encyclopedia Of World Writers. 3 volumes
Подождите немного. Документ загружается.
The Choephori (Aeschylus) 5
Chopinel, Jean. See Jean de Meun
Chrétien de Troyes 67–69
influence of 68, 115, 124, 131, 329
influences on 201, 311
and medieval romance 190, 258
works by 65–66, 130–131
Christ and Satan 217
Christianity
converts to 29, 30–31
critics of 248
Crusades and 79–81
Holy Grail and 130
influence of 65, 124
influences on 249
Middle Ages and 189
in Roman Empire 243
spread of 79, 86, 109, 152, 157
Christine de Pisan
influence of 190
influences on 261
on women 66
Chronicle (Apollodorus) 17
Chronicle (Jean de Joinville) 80
Chubb, Thomas Caldecot 14–15
Ch’u Elegies. See Qu Elegies
Ch`ü Yüan. See Qu Yuan
ci (poetry) 171, 291, 327
Cicero, Marcus Tullius 69–71
contemporaries of 130, 299
influence of 29, 30, 167, 242,
293
influences on 23, 101, 302
literary criticism by 125
literary criticism on 12
opinions expressed by 173
translations of 167
works on 177, 245
Le Cid (Corneille) 72
Cid, El 71–73, 190
Cid Campeador. See Cid, El
City of God (Augustine) 30, 31
City of Night (Rechy) 233
Civil War (Lucan) 175–176
Clare of Assisi, Saint 107
Clarissa (Richardson) 66
Clarke, Howard W. 133–134
classical epics 97
Claudius (emperor of Rome)
contemporaries of 234
influences on 172
reign of 275
works on 294
Clement of Alexandria 174
Cleon of Athens 20, 308
Cleopatra 92
Cligés (Chrétien de Troyes) 68
“The Cloud Messenger” (Kalidasa)
153–154
Clouds (Aristophanes) 20, 282
“The Cock and the Pearl” (Phaedrus)
235
Codicil of Jean de Meun (Jean de Meun)
147
Coffin Texts 53
Cohen, Abraham 295–296
“Cold is the North” (Li He) 169
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
influences on 6, 306
The Collection for Ten Thousand Ages
225–226
Collection of Old and New Japanese
Poems 159
The Colliget (Averroës) 33
Columbus, Christopher 247
The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare) 240
Commentaries on the Attic Orators
(Dionysius of Halicarnassus) 93
Commentary on the Civil Wars (Caesar)
58, 59
Commentary on the Inca (La Vega) 199
Commentary on the Timaeus (Proclus)
249
Commentary on the War in Gaul
(Caesar) 57, 58–59, 130
Commodus, Emperor 110
La Compiuta Donzella. See Donzella,
Compiuta
Concerning the Origin and Location of
the Germans (Tacitus) 293
Concerning the Ruin of Britain (Gildas)
112
Conchobar Mac Nessa (king of Ulster)
200
The Conference of the Birds (`Atta¯r)
25–26
Confessio Amantis (Gower) 261
Confessions (Augustine) 29, 30–31
Confucius 73–75
Book of Songs and 51, 52, 74
contemporaries of 165
influence of 38, 74, 104, 122, 171,
297
philosophy of 74–75
“A Congratulatory Ode on the Occasion
of the Feast of Sacrifices” (al-
Mutanabbi) 196
Conics (Euclid) 101
Conquest of Constantinople (Robert of
Clari) 80
The Conquest of Gaul (Caesar). See
Commentary on the War in Gaul
(Caesar)
La Conquête de Constantinople
(Villehardouin) 319
The Conscious Lovers (Steele) 300
The Consolation of Philosophy
(Boethius) 11, 50–51, 147
Consolation to Helvia (Seneca)
275
The Conspiracy of Catiline (Sallust)
270–271
Constantine (prince of Byzantium)
15–16
The Constitution of the Lacedaemonians
(Xenophon) 333
The Constraint of What Is Not
Compulsory (Al-Ma`rrı¯) 181
Contares Mexicanos 209
Continuation of the History of Aufidius
Bassas (Pliny the Elder) 241
Contra academicos (Augustine) 29
Contra Arianos liber unus (Fulgentius)
109
Convivio (Dante) 83
Cook, Robert 285
Coolidge, Olivia 71, 177, 320
Copley, Frank O. 178–179
Corinna 236
“Corinna’s Going A Maying” (Herrick)
62
Corneille, Pierre 72, 203
correspondence 38, 70, 93, 104, 243,
293
Council of Clermont 79, 80
Countess of Dia 312–313
“The Country Mouse and the City
Mouse” (Aesop) 8
courtly love 64–66
and Arthurian romance 65–66, 67,
68
chivalry and 189
influence of 116, 269, 313, 329
influences on 229
origins of 257
troubadour songs and 146, 311,
318
works on 43, 147, 259–261, 318
Coward, David 267
“Coyote and Junco” 341
Coyote tales
Hopi 75–77, 205, 313
White Mountain Apache 328
Zuni 299
Cranmer-Byng, L. 227
Crassus 57
“Craven” (Han Yu) 123
creation myths
Finnish 152
Indian 152
Native-American 75, 77–79, 223,
299, 314, 328, 341
Oceanic 205–207
oral tradition and 223
Creation Myths of Primitive America
(Curtin) 78
Crispus, Gaius Sallustius. See Sallust
Cristóbal de Molina 199
Critical-Analytical Studies of Metal and
Stone Inscriptions (Li and Zhao) 170
Index 381
Croesus (king of Lydia) 6
Crónica de veinte reyes 72
Cronos 202, 203
Crow Indian creation myths 78
A Crown for the King (Ibn Gabirol) 139
Crusades 79–81
chivalric code and 65
goals of 189
impact of 257, 311
participants in 107, 146, 318, 319
works on 284
Ctesias 92
Ctesiphon 90
Cu Chulainn 200
cuicahuicque 208
cuicamatl 208
Cura Pastoralis (Gregory) 11
Curtin, Jeremiah 78
Curzon, Daniel 233
Cushing, Frank Hamilton 299
Cycle of Kings 199, 201
Cynddlew 39
Cynewulf 217
Cyril 225
The Cyropaedia (Xenophon) 333
Cyrus (prince of Persia) 332, 333
D
Daibu, Lady 82
Dáire, Tadhg Mac 39
“The Dairy Maid and Her Milk Can”
(Aesop) 7–8
Damasus (pope) 148
Daniel, Arnaut. See Arnaut Daniel
Daniélou, Alain 155, 156
Dante Alighieri 83–85
contemporaries of 14, 143, 167
influence of 66, 190
influences on 25, 85, 203, 229,
235, 250, 313, 322
literary criticism on 84–85, 128
themes of 66
works by 97, 318
works on 14
Daodejing (Laozi) 165–166
Daoism
founding of 165
influence of 104, 122, 168, 264,
291, 334
tenets of 165–166
Daphnis and Chloë (Longus) 174–175
d’Arezzo, Guittone 85
Dark Age 190
Data (Euclid) 101
D’Aubigné, Agrippa 322
Davanzati, Chiaro 85, 85–86
David of Sassoun 86–87
Dawla, Sayfal al- 196
Dawlah, ‘Ala’ ad- 34
Dawlah, Shams ad- 34
Dawson, Raymond 75
da ya (ta ya) 52
Daye, Angell 175
Deacon Gregor 224
Dead Sea Scrolls 87–89
Bible and 49
influences on 115
De Amicitia (Cicero) 70
De animae quantitate (Augustine) 29
The Death of Arthur (Malory) 68, 258
“The Death of Sohrab” (Firdawsı¯) 278
De beata vita (Augustine) 29
De Bello Gallico (Caesar) 130
Decameron (Boccaccio) 14–15, 190,
232, 305
De Clementia (Seneca) 276
De consolatione philosophiae (Boethius)
50–51
De Divinatione (Cicero) 70
The Deeds of the Franks 80
“The Deepest Essence of the Soul”
(Hadewijch) 119
“Deer Park” (Wang Wei) 326
deer songs, Yaqui 78, 335–337
“De Fide” (Fulgentius) 109
De immortalitate animae (Augustine)
29
De institutione arithmetica (Boethius)
50
De institutione musica (Boethius) 50
De Ira (Seneca) 276
De libero arbitrio (Augustine) 29–30
De magistro (Augustine) 30
Demeter 203
Demetrius of Phaelerum 234
democracy, origins of 26
Demosthenes 89–91
contemporaries of 27, 140, 141
literary criticism on 173
works on 90, 245
Demosthenes: Statesman and Orator
(Worthington) 90
De musica (Augustine) 29
De Mysteriis (Ambrose) 12
De natura Deorum (Cicero) 70
De natura rerum liber (Jones) 41
Denby, David 133, 239, 281
de Officiis (Cicero) 70
De Officiis ministrorum (Ambrose) 12
de oratore (Cicero) 70
De ordine (Augustine) 29
De Providentia (Seneca) 276
de re Militaria (Vegetius) 147
De re Publica (Cicero) 70
De Rerum Natura (Lucretius) 99,
177–179
Descartes, René 277
Description of Greece (Pausanias)
232–233
The Description of the World (Polo)
246–248
De Senectute (Cicero) 70
“The Deserted Camp” (Labid) 164
Desire Under the Elms (O’Neill) 203
Detti (Jacopone da Todi) 144
Il Detto d’Amore 261
deus ex machina 24, 91–92, 102, 286
Devi Bhagavata 250
De vulgari eloquentia (Dante) 84
dharma 46, 231, 316
Dharma Shastra 155, 231
Dialectic (Abélard) 1
Dialogue between a Philosopher, a
Christian, and a Jew (Abélard) 1
“Dialogue in the Mountains” (Li Bai)
168
Dialogue on Orators (Tacitus) 254
Dialogues of the Gods (Lucian) 176
Dialogus de Oratoribus (Tacitus) 293
Diana 202
diarists 141–142, 191–192, 194–196
Díaz de Vivar, Rodrigo. See Cid, El
Dickens, Charles 302, 306
Didactic Poems (Hadewijch) 118
Diderot, Denis 80
Diego (count of Oviedo) 71
Diego de Guzmán 336
Dinarchus 27
Diodorus 92–93
Dionysius II (king of Syracuse) 238
Dionysius of Halicarnassus 93, 173
Dionysius the Areopagite 249
Discourses of Epictetus (Epictetus) 99
Discourses on Livy (Machiavelli) 172
Disputationes Tusculanae (Cicero) 70
Divan (al-Farazdaq) 105
Divani Shamsi Tabriz (Rumi) 265
The Divine Comedy (Dante)
composition of 83
content and themes 25, 84–85
as epic 97
influence of 190
influences on 203, 322
The Divine Names (Dionysius the
Areopagite) 249
diwans 3, 140
Djojonegoro, Wardiman 317
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe) 203
Doe, Paula 226
dolce stil nuovo 85
Domitian (emperor of Rome) 99, 150,
242, 294
Donati, Gemma 83
Dong Jieyuan 325
Doniger, Wendy 156
Donne, John 313
Don Quixote (Cervantes) 66
Donzella, Compiuta 93–94
The Dove’s Necklace (Ibn Hazm) 65
382 Encyclopedia of World Writers, Beginnings through the 13th Century
drama. See also playwrights
in Middle Ages 190
miracle plays 190, 194, 198
morality plays 190, 194, 198
mummers’ plays 193–194
mystery plays 190, 194, 197–198
tragedy
Aristotle on 23–24
development of genre 4
“Drawing Close to Love” (Hadewijch)
119
Dream of Red Mansions (Cao Xueqin)
325
Dream of the Red Chamber (Cao
Xueqin) 325
The Dream of the Rood 217
Dryden, John 99, 128, 237, 240, 246,
322
Dudley, Donald R. 178
Du Fu
contemporaries of 326
influence of 38
influences on 297
literary criticism by 168
literary criticism on 169
Dunham, William 101
“The Dust Is Blown Over His Beauties”
(Al-Khansa¯’) 159
du-wen movement 122
“Dwelling in the Mountains” (Xie Ling-
yun) 334
Dyskolos (Menander) 188
E
“The Eagle and the Beetle” (Aesop) 7
Easwaran, Eknath 45
“The Ebony Horse” 305–306
Ecclesiastical History of the English
People (Bede)
contents of 56–57, 218
influence of 15, 41, 112
language of 189
translations of 11
Eclogues (Virgil) 320–321, 322
Edda 95–96
Elder 95, 204–205
influence of 211
themes of 190
Younger Edda (Snorri Sturluson)
95, 204, 269, 280
Edgerton, Franklin 232
education, in ancient Rome 253–254
Edward I (king of England) 79,
189–190
Egill Skallagrimsson 279
Egil’s Saga 269, 279
Eight Masters 325
Einhard 283
Elahinama (’Atta¯r) 26
El Cid. See Cid, El
Elder Edda 95
Eleanor of Aquitaine 43, 67, 257, 311
Electra (Euripides) 91, 102
Electra (Sophocles) 286
elegies 218–219
Elegies (Propertius) 249–250
Elegies of Qu (Elegies of Ch’u) See Qu
Elegies 100–101
Elements (Euclid) 100–101
Elements of Music (Euclid) 101
Elements of Platonic Theology (Proclus)
249
Eliot, George 302
Eliot, T. S. 6, 25, 131, 322
Eloquence in the Vernacular (Dante) 84
Eloquent Testimony of the Great
Calamity (Ibn ‘Alqama) 72
Emmerich (king of Hungary) 318
Encheiridion (Epictetus) 99
Encountering Sorrow (Lisao, Qu Yuan)
252–253, 255
Encyclopédie (Diderot, ed.) 80–81
Eneit (Eneas; Heinrich von Veldeke)
124–125
England, mythology of 199–202. See
also Arthurian legend
“Enjoy the Passing Hour” (Horace) 61
Enlightenment, influences on 244
Enneads (Plotinus) 244, 248
Ennius, Quintus 96
“An Enquiry into Slander” (Han Yu)
122–123
Ephorus 92
epic(s) 96–98
African 98–99
Armenian 86–87
Chinese 327
classical 97
Crusades and 80
English 39, 41–43, 217
Finnish 152–153
folk 97
French 283–285
Germanic 124–125, 211–212
Greek 60, 127, 131–134
Indian 181, 315
influence of 67
literary criticism on 23, 186
medieval literature and 190, 258
oral literature and 223
Persian 277–278
Roman 96, 228, 321–322
Russian 283
satires of 28
Spanish 72
Sumerian 113
themes in 136
types of 97
Epic of Gilgamesh. See Gilgamesh
Epic of Son-Jara 9, 98–99, 223, 289
The Epic of the Kings (Levy, trans.) 278
Epictetus 99
Epicureanism 99–100, 177, 277
Epicurus 99–100
contemporaries of 187, 301
influence of 57, 177, 320
themes of 61
Epigrams (Martial) 186–187
Epimetheus 203
Epinician Odes (Pindar) 236
“The Epistle of Forgiveness” (Al-Ma’rrı¯)
180
Epistles (Horace) 135
Epistulae ex Ponto (Ovid) 228
Epistulae morales (Seneca) 275–276
“Epithalamia” (Sappho) 272
Epodes (Horace) 135
Epstein, Isidore 295
Erasmus, Desiderius 254, 302
Erec (Hartmann von Aue) 124
Erec and Enide (Chrétien de Troyes)
65–66, 67
Ervast, Pekka 153
Eschenbach, Wolfram von. See Wolfram
von Eschenbach
Essays in Idleness (Yoshida Kenko¯) 337
Estoria del Cid 72
Ethics, or Know Thyself (Abélard) 1–2
Eu, Jean de Brienne, count of 147
Euclid 100–101
Eumenes 92
The Eumenides (Aeschylus) 5–6
Eunapius 173
The Eunuch (Terence) 300
Euripides 101–103
contemporaries of 101, 102, 280,
286
and deus ex machina 91–92, 102
influence of 174
literary criticism on 24, 102–103,
173
themes in 136, 137
works by 91–92, 137, 177
works on 21
Euthyphro (Plato) 238
Evers, Larry 336
Examination of the Methods of Proof
Concerning the Doctrines of Religion
(Averroës) 33
Exeter Book 217, 219
Eyrbyggia Saga 269–270
Ezra 295
F
Fables (La Fontaine) 232
Fables (Phaedrus) 234–235
“Fables of Bidpai” 235
fabliau 267
Index 383
Fabulae Aesopiae (Phaedrus) 234–235
The Faerie Queene (Spenser)
as epic 97
influences on 68, 203, 313, 322
fakhr 13, 298
Fallacies (Euclid) 101
The Family Reunion (Eliot) 6
Fan Chengda 104–105
Fan Ch’eng-t’a. See Fan Chengda
Farazdaq, al- 105
Farı¯d od-Dı¯n. See ’Atta¯r, Faríd od-Dín
The Far-off Journey 252
Fasti (Ovid) 228
“The Father of Indian Corn” 215
Father Sky 206
Favolello (Latini) 167
“The Fawn Will Not Make Flowers” 336
Fellini, Federico 233
feng 51–52
Fenian Cycle 199, 200–201
Fenrir 205
Fernando I (king of Castile) 71
feudalism
and chivalry 64
Middle Ages and 189
Fielding, Henry 175
Fifteen Poets of the Aztec World (León-
Portilla, trans.) 209
Figures (Euclid) 101
file 39
fin’amor 43, 311
Finley, John H., Jr. 308
Finn 190
Finnegan, Ruth 9
Finnegan’s Wake (Joyce) 201
Finnish national epic 152–153
Fionn, Gofraidh 39
il Fiore 261
Firdawsı¯, Abu¯ ol-Qa¯sem Mansu¯r
106–107, 277–278
Firdousi, Abu¯ ol-Qa¯sem Mansu¯r. See
Firdawsı¯, (Abu¯ ol-Qa¯sem Mansu¯r)
Fisher King 130–131
“The Fisherman and the Genie” 305
“The Fishes and the Frying Pan”
(Aesop) 8
Fitzgerald, Edward 220
The Five Treasures (Neza¯mı¯) 210
Flaccus, Lucius 70
Flaccus, Quintus Horatius. See Horace
Flatha, Fear 39
Floire et Blancheflor 28
flood myths 77, 114, 115, 328
Florentine Codex 209
Florida (Apuleius) 19
folk epics 97
Fons Vitae (Ibn Gabirol) 138–139
“The Foolish Girls” 215
“For Her Brother” (Al-Khansa¯’) 159
“The Former Cloud” (Kalidasa) 153–154
“The Four Branches of the
Mabinogian” 201
Four Doctors of the Church 12
Fox, Matthew 128
“The Fox and the Grapes” (Aesop) 7
“The Fox and the Stork” (Phaedrus) 234
Frampton, John 247
Francés, Bruno 62
Franciscan Order 107
Francis of Assisi, Saint 107–108
influence of 143
works by 189
Frappier, Jean 67, 68
Frederick II (Holy Roman Emperor)
318
Freud, Sigmund 203
Freyja 205
Friberg, Eino 153
Frogs (Aristophanes) 21
Froissart, Jean 66, 190
Frost, Robert 62
fu (poetry) 253, 291, 338, 340
Fujiwara Michinaga 108, 194
Fujiwara no Kaneie 191
Fujiwara no Kinto 221
Fujiwara no Teika 108
Fujiwara no Yasumasa 14
Fujiwara Sadaie. See Fujiwara no Teika
Fujiwara Shunzei 108
Fulcher of Chartes 80
Fulgentius, Saint 108–109
Fulgentius of Ruspe. See Fulgentius, Saint
G
Gaius Octavius. See Augustus
Galba (emperor of Rome) 253
Galen 110–111
influence of 35
influences on 129
Galland, Antoine 304–305
Gallienus (emperor of Rome) 244
Gallus, Cornelius 250
Gamboa, Pedro Sarmiento 199
Gandhi, Mahatma 46
Ganjavı¯, Elya¯s Yu¯sof Nezami. See Neza¯mı¯
Gao Ming 111–112
“The Garden” (Ibn Gabirol) 138–139
Gaufridus Monemutensis 112
Gemara 295–296
Gemmei (empress of Japan) 160
Genesis poem 219
Gentry, Francis 211
Geoffrey of Monmouth 112
influence of 219
influences on 201
works by 67, 189
Geographical Relation of Tezcoco
(Pomar) 209
Geographical Studies (Strabo) 288
The Geography (Strabo) 288
George, Arthur 278
Georgics (Virgil) 127, 320–321, 322
German Epic Poetry (Gentry, ed.) 211
Germania (Tacitus) 293
ghazal 298
Ghazali, al- 33
ghazal tradition 105
Gibbs, Marion 329–330
Gildas 112
Giles, J. A. 40–41
Giles, Lionel 290
Gilgamesh 113–115
as epic 97
flood myth in 77, 114, 115
influence of 115
literary criticism on 113–115
oral literature and 223
themes of 61
Gilgamesh of Uruk 113
Ginsberg, Allen 339
“The Girl and the Little Ahayuuta” 341
“The Girl Who Took Care of the
Turkeys” 299
Glosses on Logic (Abélard) 1
Goddard, Pliny Earle 327–328
Godfrey of Bouillon 80
Godfrey of Lagny 68
Godinho, P. N. 158
“Gododdin” (Anerin) 39
The God of Socrates, Plato and his
Doctrines (Apuleius) 19
Gods and Heroes of the Celts (Sjoestedt)
201
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
influences on 154, 203, 263
literary criticism by 175
works by 250
Go-Kuden (Go-Toba) 279
The Golden Ass (Apuleius) 18–19
“Golden Bells” (Bai) 38
Golden Legend (Longfellow) 124
Golden Odes. See Hanged Poems
Golestan (Saadı¯) 268
Góngora, Luis de 313
Goodwin, Grenville 327–328
“The Goose with the Golden Eggs”
(Aesop) 8
Gordian III (emperor of Rome) 244
Go-Shirakawa (emperor of Japan) 279
Goshuishu (1086) 142
Go-Toba (emperor of Japan) 108, 279
Gottfried von Strassburg 115–116
contemporaries of 329
literary criticism by 125
literary criticism on 309
medieval romance and 258
works by 65
Go-Uda (emperor of Japan) 337
Gower, John 229, 261
384 Encyclopedia of World Writers, Beginnings through the 13th Century
Gray, Thomas 237
Great Assembly 295
The Great Dionysia 20–21
“The Great Fish” 331
Greek mythology 202–204, 228, 260
The Greek Way (Hamilton) 6
Green, Peter 17
Gregor, Deacon 224
Gregory, Horace 229
Gregory, Saint
as Doctor of the Church 12
translations of 11
Gregory of Nyssa 244
Gregory VII (pope) 189
Gregory VIII (pope) 79
Griffin, Jasper 69
Grimm, Jacob 116
Grimm brothers
influences on 124, 232
works comparable to 76
Grinyer, Peter 290
griots 98
The Guide to the Perplexed
(Maimonides) 183
Guillame de Dôle 147
Guillaume de Lorris 116–117
influence of 147
medieval romance and 258
themes of 65
works by 259–261
Guinizelli, Guido 85
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift) 176
“A Gust of Wind” 215
Gutenberg, Johannes 190
Gutzwiller, Kathryn J. 60
Guyer, Foster 258
Gwalchmai 39
Gwilym, Dafydd ap 39
H
Haakon IV (king of Norway) 269, 280
Habakkuk, commentaries on 89
Hades 202, 203
Hadewijch 40, 118–119
hadith 162, 192
Hadrian (emperor of Rome) 150, 184
Hafiz 220
Haft Paykar (Neza¯mı¯) 210
haiku 296
Hakim, “Mad” Caliph 79
Hakuin 339
Halevi, Judah 120, 139
Halevi, Yehuda Benjamin Samuel. See
Halevi, Judah
Halle, Adam de la. See Adam de la Halle
The Hall of Beautiful Spring (Wang
Shifu) 326
hamartia 23, 24, 136
Hamilton, Edith 4, 6, 128
Hamlet (Shakespeare) 204
HaNagid, Samuel 138
Handel, George Frideric 203
Hanford, S. A. 58
Hanged Poems (Mu’alaqa¯t; Seven Odes;
Golden Odes) 120–121
history of 298
poets included in 13, 140, 164,
297, 298
Han Hsin 290
Han Shan 121–122, 297
Han Xin 290
Han Yu (Han Yü) 122–123
contemporaries of 169
influence of 226
“The Hare and the Tortoise” (Aesop) 7
Harith, al- 120, 298
Harold (king of England) 189
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Rushdie)
306
Hartmann von Aue 123–124, 329
Le Haut Livre de Graal 131
Heavenly Questions 253
Hebrew Bible 47–50
creation story in 77
Dead Sea Scrolls and 87–89
Hecale (Callimachus) 60
Hecataeus of Abdera 92
Hecuba (Euripides) 102
Hecyra (Terence) 300
hegira 193
Heidegger, Martin 339
Heike Monogatari (Kamo) 157
Heimskringla (Snorri Sturluson) 280
Heinrich von Veldeke 124–125
Hel 205
Heliodorus 174
Hellados Periegesis (Pausanias) 232–233
Hellenica (Xenophon) 333
Héloïse 1–2
influences on 229
language of 189
translations of 147
He Lu (king of Wu) 289–290
Hen, Llywarch 39
Henry II (king of England) 15, 43, 186
Henry IV (emperor of Germany) 189
hEoghusa, Eochaidh Ó 39
Hephaestus 203
Hera 202
Hercules Enraged (Seneca) 276
Hermann of Thuringia 329
Hermes 202
Hermias 22
Herodotus 125–127
contemporaries of 125, 286
influences on 17
literary criticism on 92, 307
works by 14, 280
Heroides (Ovid) 227
Herrick, Robert
influences on 14
themes of 62
Hesiod 127–128
literary criticism on 173
themes in 137, 202
works by 203
Hestia 203
Hicks, R. D. 99
Hieron of Syracuse 4, 37
Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius. See
Jerome, Saint
Hieronymus of Cardia 92
hija (lampooning) 105
hijra. See hegira
Hildegard von Bingen 128–129
language of 189
works on 118
Hildegard von Bingen’s Mystical Visions
(Fox) 128
Hina-of-the-moon 206
Hinduism 154. See also Bhagavad Gita;
Mahabharata; Panchatantra; purana;
Ramayana
Hippocrates 110, 129–130
Hippocratic Corpus 129
Hippocratic Oath 129
Hippolytus (Euripides) 102
Hiroaki Sato 279
Hirtius, Aulus 58, 130
Historia abbatum (Bede) 41
Historia General de Etiopia Alta (Teilez)
158
Historia naturalis (Pliny the Elder)
241–242
Historia Regum Britanniae (Geoffrey of
Monmouth) 67, 112
Historia Roderici 72
Historical Sketches (Strabo) 288
Historic Cycle. See Cycle of Kings
histories
of Africa 158
of ancient civilizations 92
of ancient Greece 125–127,
307–308
of Byzantium 16
of China 226
of classical world 93
of Crusades 80, 319
of England 15, 67, 112, 189, 219
of English religious history 41
of Greece 17, 307–308, 333
of the Jews 149
of Native Americans 81
of Rome 96, 172, 241, 270–271,
288, 293–294
Histories (Tacitus) 293–294
History (Herodotus) 125–127, 136
History of Ethiopia (Almeida)
158
Index 385
A History of Finnish Literature (Ahohas)
153
History of Jerusalem (Robert and Monk)
80
History of My Calamities (Abélard) 2
History of Reynard the Fox (Caxton)
263
The History of Rome from Its Foundation
(Livy) 172
A History of Sanskrit Literature (Keith)
154
History of the Crusades (Runciman) 81
History of the Germanic Wars (Pliny the
Elder) 241
History of the Incas (Gamboa) 199
History of the Jugurthine War (Sallust)
271
History of the Kings of Britain (Geoffrey
of Monmouth) 67, 112, 189, 219
History of the Kings of Ethiopia
(Agrippa) 158
History of the Peloponnesian War
(Thucydides) 307–308
History of the Persian Wars (Herodotus).
See History (Herodotus)
History of the Roman Republic (Sallust)
270
Hobbes, Thomas 308
The Hobbit (Tolkien) 95
Hodges, David 169
Hohokam Indians 222
Hojoki (Kamo) 157
Holland, Philemon 245
Hollander, Robert 84
Holloway, Julia Bolton 167
Holmes, Urban 68
Holy Grail 130–131
and Arthurian legend 65, 68
courtly love and 311
influence of 331
Tristan and Iseult and 309
works on 115, 190, 258, 329–330
Homage to Sectus Propertius (Pound)
250
Homer 131–134
contemporaries of 127
influence of 16, 17, 108, 132, 174,
236, 269
influences on 115, 203
literary criticism on 10, 23–24, 84,
97, 133–134, 173, 176, 322
oral literature and 223
themes in 61, 136, 202
views on 227
homosexuality, in ancient Rome 233
“Honeysuckle” (Marie de France) 186,
310
Hopi
Coyote Tales 75–77, 205, 313
tuuwutsi narratives 313–314
“The Hopi Boy and the Sun” 314
Hopi Coyote Tales (Malotki and
Lomatuway’ma) 76
“The Hopis and the Famine” 299
Horace 134–136
contemporaries of 32, 134, 172,
249, 299
influence of 61–62, 63, 168
influences on 10, 60, 237, 302
life of 234
literary criticism on 135–136, 227,
235
themes of 61, 172
Hortensius (Cicero) 30
House of Fame (Chaucer) 322
Hovnan of Khout 86
“How Dog Came to the Indians” 215
Howell, Peter 186, 187
“How the Deer Got His Horns” 216
Hroswitha of Gandersheim 300
hsiao ya 52
Hsieh Ling-yün. See Xie Ling-Yun
Hsi-hsiang-chi (Wang Shifu) 325–326
Hsüan-tsung. See Xuanzhong
Huai (king of Qu) 254
Hubbard, Margaret 250
hubris 23, 136–137
Hugo, Victor 322
Hui-pao 325
humanist movement, influences on 254
Humphries, Rolfe 229
hyakushu-uta 279
Hyperides 27, 141
I
Iambi (Callimachus) 60
Ibis (Callimachus) 60
Ibn ‘Alqama 72
Ibn Bassam 72
Ibn Ezra, Moshe 138
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon ben Yehuda
138–139, 304
Ibn Hasan, Yequtiel 138
Ibn Hazm 65
Ibn Hujr. See Imru’ al-Qays
Ibn Jabirul, Abu Ayyub Sulaiman Ibn
Ya h y a . See Ibn Gabirol, Solomon ben
Yehuda
Ibn Shaddad, Antara 120–121, 298
Ibn Sı¯na¯. See Avicenna
Icelandic sagas 212–213, 269
Ida of Nivelles 40
Idylls of the King (Tennyson) 68, 131
The Iliad (Homer)
contents and themes of 97,
131–134, 136
influence of 16, 97, 322
influences on 202
Imam `Alí. See `Alí ibn Abí Talíb
Impartial Judgements in the Garden of
Literature (Zheng Hou) 290
Imperial Poetry Bureau 157
Impromptu Verses on the Four Seasons of
the Countryside (Fan Chengda) 104
Imru` al-Qays 120–121, 139–140, 298
Incas
creation myths 77
myth of Manco Capac 77,
198–199, 223
In Catilinam (Cicero) 70–71
The Incoherence of the Incoherence
(Averroës) 33
The Incoherence of the Philosophers (al-
Ghazali) 33
Indra 256
Inferno (Dante) 84
Innocent III (pope) 107, 319
“In Praise of God” (Ibn Gabirol)
139
Inscribed Landscapes (Strassberg) 252,
325
“The Interest without the Capital”
(Rumi) 265
Introduction to Theology (Abélard) 1
Ion of Chios 286
Iphigenia at Aulis (Euripides) 177
Ireland, mythology of 199–202
Irene (empress of Byzantium) 16
Irwin, James 206
Irwin, Robert 304
Isaeus 140
contemporaries of 140, 141
influence of 27
influences on 27
Iseult. See Tristan and Iseult
Iskandar-Nama (Neza¯mıı¯ 210
Islam. See also Koran
converts to 2, 159, 164
Crusades and 79–81
founding of 192
influence of 298
influences on 244
major figures in 11–12, 25–26
spread of 79, 189
works on 285, 331
Islamic law 162, 193
Isocrates 141
contemporaries of 140, 141
influence of 27
Israel Antiquities Authority
87
Italos, John 16
Iwein (Hartmann von Aue) 124
Ixtlilxóchitl, Alva 209
Izumi Shikibu 141–142
influences on 222
works by 296
Izumi Shikibu Nikki (Izumi Shikibu)
142
386 Encyclopedia of World Writers, Beginnings through the 13th Century
J
Jackson Knight, W. F. 97
Jacobs, Joseph 263
Jacopo dei Benedetti. See Jacopone da
To d i
Jacopone da Todi 143–144
Ja¯hiz, `Abu `Uthma¯n `Amr ibn Bahr ibn
Mahbu¯b al-Ja¯hiz 144–145
Jaroslav of Kiev 225
Jataka 145–146
influences on 317
parallels to 230, 235
Jaufré Rudel 43, 44, 146–147, 318
Jean de Joinville 80
Jean de Meun 147–148
influences on 2, 311
themes of 65
works by 116–117, 258, 259–261
Jensen, Frede 146, 318
Jerome, Saint 148
as Doctor of the Church 12, 148
influence of 168
influences on 254
works by 177, 189
Jerusalem Delivered (Tasso) 80
Jewish Antiquities (Josephus) 149
Jewish War (Josephus) 149
jinshi 104, 111, 122, 291, 327
Jiuge (Chiu-ko) 252
jnana 46
John II (emperor of Byzantium) 16
John of Hexham 40
Johnson, John William 98–99
Johnson, Sidney 329–330
Jones, C. W. 41
jongleur 311
Jonson, Ben 14, 17, 245, 254, 302
Joseph of Arimathea 130, 131
Josephus, Flavius 149
Journey through Genius (Dunham) 101
“A Journey to the Skeleton House” 314
Joyce, James 201
Juan Chi. See Ruan Ji
Judaism. See Hebrew Bible
Judith, Juliana, and Elene 218
Julian of Norwich 40, 189
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) 245–246
Jung, Carl 203–204
Junius manuscript 217
Juno 202, 321
Jupiter 202, 321
Justinian (emperor of Byzantium) 140
Justinian (emperor of Rome) 121
“just war” concept 80
Juvenal 150–151
contemporaries of 150, 186, 254
influence of 168
influences on 302
Juvenalis, Decimus Junius. See Juvenal
Juzjani 35
K
Ka‘aba 120, 121
ka’atsa narratives 313, 314
Kafur 196
Kagero Diary (Mother of Fujiwara
Michitsuna) 191
kakekotoba 222
Kalevala 152–153
as epic 97
oral literature and 223
Kalidasa 153–154, 181, 317
Kalidasakavyasambhavam (Pandey)
154
kama 231
Kama Sutra 154–156, 231
Kamo no Chomei 156–157
Kana’ti 216
Kane 206
K`ang-Lo, Duke of. See Xie Ling-yun
Kao Ming. See Gao Ming
karma 46
Katsuragi (prince of Japan) 213
Kawashima, Terry 222
Kay, Sarah 260
Keats, John 19
Kebra Nagast Chronicles 157–158
Keith, Arthur Berriedale 154
Kennedy, Philip 298
kennings 95, 204, 218
Kenreimon-in Ukyo no Daibu. See
Daibu, Lady
Kenrei Mon’in Ukyo no Daibu shu
(Daibu) 82
Kerouac, Jack 339
Keter Malkhut (Ibn Gabirol) 139
The Keys to the Kalevala (Ervast) 153
Khadija 192
Khamse (Neza¯mıı¯) 210
Khansa¯`, al- 158–159, 180
Khayya¯mıı¯ Gheya¯ od-Dı¯n Abu¯ ol-fath
`Omar ebn Ebrahı¯ım al-. See Omar
Khayyám
Khosrow and Shı¯rı¯n (Neza¯mı¯) 210
King Harald’s Saga (Snorri Sturluson)
280
King Mark and Iseult the White
(Chrétien de Troyes) 67
Ki no Tsurayuki 159–160, 221
Kitab al-Bayan wa al-tabayyun (Al-
Ja¯hiz) 145
Kitab al-Hayawan (Al-Ja¯hiz) 145
The Knight of the Grail (Chrétien de
Troyes) 329
Knights (Aristophanes) 20
koan 339
Kobun (emperor of Japan) 213
Kojiki 160, 214
Kokinshu 159, 221
Komachi, Ono no. See Ono no Komachi
Komachishu (Ono no Komachi) 221
Konde, Sogolon 98
Kongfuzi. See Confucius
Kong Qiu. See Confucius
Koran 161–163
authority of 145
authorship of 192
v. Bible 162, 163
influence of 34, 164, 180, 193, 265
literary criticism on 161–163
Krohn Rüdiger 116
Krsna Vyasa 182
Ku 206
Kulthum, `Amr ibn. See `Amr ibn
Kulthum
Kumulipo 206, 223
K`ung Ch`iu. See Confucius
K`ung Fu-tzu. See Confucius
L
Labid 120, 164, 298
“Lady of Heaven” (Jacopone da Todi)
144
Laertius, Diogenes 301
La Fontaine, Jean de
influences on 232, 235
works by 8
lais 185
Lakota creation myths 77
“The Lament for the South” (Yu Xin)
338
The Lament (Lisao Qu Yuan) 252–253,
255
The Lament of the Lady of Ch’in (Wei
Zhuang) 327
Lamprus 286
Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart
(Chrétien de Troyes) 66, 67, 68
Lane, Edward 305
Langland, William 190, 219, 302
“The Language of Poetry” (Snorri
Sturluson) 95
Lan-p’ei lu (Fan Chengda) 104
Lao Tsu. See Laozi
Laozi 164–167
contemporaries of 74, 165
Lapham, Lewis 308
Larbaud, Valery 148
Latini, Brunetto 83, 167–168
“The Latter Cloud” (Kalidasa) 153–154
Lattimore, Richard 5, 127
Laude (Jacopone da Todi) 143–144
Laxdaela Saga 270
Layamon 219
Layli and Majnun (Neza¯mı¯) 210–211
Lay of Volund 205
Lebor Gabala 200
The Legends and Lands of Native North
Americans (Martinez) 77
Le Gentil, Pierre 285
Index 387
Leo III (pope) 189
León-Portilla, Miguel 209
Leo XIII (pope) 40
Lerner, Alan Jay 203
Lerner, John 247
Lessing, Gotthold 203, 240
Letters (Hadewijch) 118
Letters (Pliny the Younger) 243
“Letters of a Horse and Mule” (Al-
Ma`rrı¯) 181
Letter to Herodotus (Epicurus) 99
Letter to Menoeceus (Epicurus) 99
Letter to Pythocles (Epicurus) 99
Lévi-Strauss, Claude 204
Levy, Reuben 278
Lewis, C. S. 65, 66, 259
Li Bai 168
contemporaries of 326
influence of 104
influences on 297
literary criticism on 169
The Libation Bearers (Aeschylus) 5
“Liber ad Scarilam de Incarnatione”
(Fulgentius) 109
“Liber ad Victorem” (Fulgentius) 109
Li Bo. See Li Bai
Li Erh. See Laozi
Life (Josephus) 149
“Life Is Brief” (Horace) 135
The Life of Avicenna (Juzjani) 35
Life of Beatrice (Beatrice of Nazareth) 40
Life of Charlemagne (Einhard) 283
Life of Merlin (Geoffrey of Monmouth)
112
Life of Plotinus (Porphyry) 173, 244
Life of Plutarch (Dryden) 246
Life of Pythagoras (Porphyry) 248
Li Gefei 170
Li He 169–170
Lincoln, Abraham 101
Lineaje del Cid 72
Li Pai. See Li Bai
Li Po. See Li Bai
Li Qingzhao 170–171
Li Sao (Qu Yuan) 252–253, 255
Li Shangyin 171–172
“List of Verse Forms” (Snorri
Sturluson) 95
Li T`ai Po. See Li Bai
A Literary History of the Arabs
(Nicholson) 298
“Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assissi”
108
Lives of Eminent Philosophers (Hicks) 99
Lives of Famous Romans (Coolidge) 71,
320
Livy 172–173
contemporaries of 32, 172
influence of 175
Llywelyn, Morgan 201
Lobo, Jerónimo 158
Loewe, Frederick 203
Loki 205
Lomatuway’ma, Michael 76
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 124, 215
Longinus 173–174
contemporaries of 173, 248
influence of 293
Longinus, Cassius 173
Longus 174–175
Lönnrot, Elias 152
Lono 206
Loptsson, Jon 279
Lord, Louis E. 70
“Lord, Where Shall I Find You” (Halevi)
120
The Lord of the Rings (Tolkien) 95, 201,
204, 270
Lorris, Guillaume de. See Guillaume de
Lorris
Louis IV (king of France) 80
“Love Is the Master” (Rumi) 265
Lovelace, Richard 14
The Lover’s Confession (Gower) 261
“Love’s Maturity” (Hadewijch) 119
Lowa 206
Lucan 175–176
contemporaries of 93
influence of 167
life of 186
Lu Chiu-Yin 121–122
Lucian 176
influence of 19
influences on 302
works by 174
Lucius, or the Ass (Lucian) 19
Lucius Apuleis. See Apuleius
Lucretius 177–179
influence of 320
influences on 96
literary criticism on 177–179
works by 99
Lucretius (Dudley) 178
Ludwig III (king of Thuringia) 124
Lu Jiuyin 121–122
“Luminous Stars in Praise of the Best of
Mankind” (al-Bu¯sírí) 55
Lun Yu 74–75
Luria, Maxwell 261
The Lute (Gao Ming) 111
A Lute of Jade (Cranmer-Byng) 227
Lute Song (musical) 112
Luther, Martin 254
Lu Yu 104
Lycurgus 27
Lygdamis 125
lyric poetry 37
Lysias 27, 179
Lysis (Plato) 238
Lysistrata (Aristophanes) 21
M
Ma`arrı¯, Abu¯ al-`Ala¯`, al- 180–181
The Mabinogian 201
Macedonius 92
Machiavelli, Niccolò 172
Macrobius 244
Macrone, Michael 202, 203
Maecenas 134–135, 249, 321
Magna Carta 189–190
Magnusson, Magnus 280
Mahabharata 181–183
authorship of 251
composition of 315
contents and themes of 45, 46,
231, 316
as epic 97
influence of 154
mahapurana 250
Mahfouz, Naguib 306
Mahmud of Hgazna 106
The Maid from Andros (Terence) 299
Maigetsusho (Fujiwara) 108
Maimonides, Moses 183–184
works by 295
works on 304
Makeda (queen of Sheba) 157–158
Makemake 206
Makura no Soshi (Sei Sho¯nagon)
273–274
Malavika and Agnimitra (Kalidasa) 154
Malavikagnimitra (Kalidasa) 154
Mallanga, Vatsyayana 155
Malory, Thomas
influences on 68, 131, 313
literary criticism on 331
medieval romance and 258
themes of 66
works by 190
Malotki, Ekkehart 76
Mama Huaco 198, 199
Ma’mun, al- 2
Manabazho 215
Manco Capac, myth of 198–199
Mandeville, Sir John 247
Manfred of Sicily 167
The Man from Sicyon (Menander) 188
Mango Sapaca 199
Mankiller, Wilma 216–217
Manon Lescaut (Prévost) 66
Mansur, Nuh Ibn 34
Mansu¯r, al- 33
mantras 256
Manuel I (emperor of Byzantium) 16
“Manwydan, Son of Llyr” 201
Man’yo¯shu¯ 225–226
Manyoshu (The Ten Thousand Leaves;
Otomo, ed.) 214
Marcabru 44, 312
Marco Polo and the Discovery of the
World (Lerner) 247
388 Encyclopedia of World Writers, Beginnings through the 13th Century
Marcus Annaeus Lucanis. See Lucan
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (emperor
of Rome) 110, 184–185
Margareta, countess of Cleve 124
Maria Stuart (Schiller) 154
Marie de Champagne 67
Marie de France 185–186
influence of 190
influences on 235, 311
medieval romance and 258
themes of 65, 67
works by 310
Marlowe, Christopher 203, 229
Maro, Publius Virgilius. See Virgil
Mars 202–203
Marsden, W. 247
Martial 186–187
contemporaries of 150
influence of 168
influences on 302
life of 253
literary criticism by 63
Martialis, Marcus Valerius. See Martial
Martinez, David 77
Marvell, Andrew 62
Marzials, Frank 80
Masefield, John 263
Master Lao. See Laozi
“Master of the Universe” (Ibn Gabirol)
139
“Math, Son of Mathonwy” 201
Mathnawi (Rumi) 265–266
Matisse, Henri 203
Mattathias, Joseph ben. See Josephus,
Flavius
Matter of Britain 257, 258
Matter of Charlemagne 257
Matter of Rome 257, 258
Maui 207
McCarthy, Terence 258
McCulloh, William 174
McKenzie, Kenneth 86
McNeilly, Mark 290
Mechthild of Magdeburg 40
Medb (queen of Connacht) 200
Medea (Euripides) 91, 102
Medea (Ovid) 227
Medea (Seneca) 276
medicine. See science and medicine
medieval literature
characteristics of 167
drama 197–198
epic poetry 283, 285
influences on 11, 41, 51, 181, 187,
189–190, 217, 235, 241, 300, 322
literary criticism on 190
literary genres 44
romance 257–259
characteristics of 211–212
development of 67
influence of 43
influences on 147, 259, 311,
329
literary criticism on 258–259
origins of 190, 257
themes of 65
themes of 61, 71, 115–116, 229,
262, 309
Tristan and Iseult in 186
medieval philosophy, influences on 11,
19, 23, 244, 248, 249
Meditations (Aurelius) 184–185
Megasthenes 92
“Megha Duuta” (Kalidasa) 153–154
Meilyr 39
Melanchthon, Philip 254
Melmoth, Sebastian 233
Memmius 62
Memorabilia (Xenophon) 282, 332
Menaechmi (Plautus) 240
Menander 187–188
influence of 21, 174, 240, 299
influences on 302
translations of 299
Mencius 74
Mendelsohn, Daniel 102, 273
Mendez, Alfonson 158
Meng Chiao 122
Meng Jiao 122
Menyelek 158
Mercury 202
Mertens, Volker 124
Messalina (empress of Rome) 275
Metamorphoses (Apuleius) 18–19
Metamorphoses (Ovid)
contents and themes of 228–229
influences on 60, 202
literary criticism on 305
Metaphysics (Aristotle) 23
Methodius 225
metics 179
Meun, Jean de. See Jean de Meun
Mexican Songs 209
Michael, Ian 73
Michael VII (emperor of Byzantium) 15
Michie, James 187
Middle Ages 188–191. See also
Medieval
asceticism in 108
courtly love tradition and 313
Doctors of the Church in 148
hymns of 144
literary criticism in 176
mythology in 199
Neoplatonism in 139
periods in 188
social concepts of 64–66, 116
women in 66, 94, 119, 129, 190,
258
Midrash 163, 295–296
Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Shakespeare) 19
Miles Gloriosus (Plautus) 240
Il milione (Polo) 246–248
Miller, Barbara Stoler 47
Milton, John
influence of 68
influences on 17, 128, 203, 322
works by 97
Mimnermus 249
Minerva 202
Minnelieder 324, 329
Minnesang tradition 324
minstrels 311
Le Miracle de Théophile (Rutebeuf)
266–267
miracle plays 190, 194, 198
The Misadventures of Tim McPick
(Curzon) 233
The Misanthrope (Menander) 188
The Miser (Molière) 240
Mishnah 295–296
Mishnah Torah (Maimonides) 183, 295
The Mists of Avalon (Bradley) 68
Mitchell, Stephen 166
Mocedades del Cid (Castro) 72
Mochi. See Wang Wei
Mo-ch`i. See Wang Wei
Mohammed. See Muhammad
moksha 46
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) 240,
245, 300
Molina, Felipe 336
Monarchia (Dante) 83
Monarchy (Dante) 83
Mone, F. J. 118
Montaigne, Michel de 185, 245, 277, 302
Montferrat, Marquis Boniface of 318
Monthly Notes (Fujiwara) 108
Montreuil, Jean de 261
Mooney, James 216
Moore, Thomas 14
Mór, Donnchadh 39
Moral Essays (Plutarch) 245
Moralia (Plutarch) 245
morality plays 190, 194, 198
Le Morte D’Arthur (Malory) 131, 190,
258, 313
Mother Earth 206
The Mother-in-Law (Terence) 300
Mother of Fujiwara Michitsuna 191–192
Motosuke 273
Motto, Anna Lydia 276
“The Mountain Where Hui-pao
Meditated” (Wang Anshi) 325
Mourning Becomes Electra (O’Neill) 6
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 203
Mu`alaqa¯t. See Hanged Poems
Mu`ayyad, Abu Muhammad Ilyas ibn
Yu¯suf ibn Zaki. See Neza¯mı¯
Index 389
Muhalhil, al- 13
Muhammad 192–193
contemporaries of 159, 164
family of 11–12, 145
influence of 298, 306
Koran and 161, 162
literary criticism by 140, 159
and spread of Islam 189
works on 33, 55, 98
mummers’ plays 193–194
munazara 145
Murasaki Shikibu 194–196
contemporaries of 141, 273
literary criticism by 273, 274
literary criticism on 82
Murena, Lucius 70
musicians and composers 3–4, 128–129
Muslim Saints and Mystics (`Atta¯r) 26
Mussin-Puschkin, Count 283
Mutalammis 297–298
Mutanabbi, al- 196–197
Mu‘tasim, al- 2
My Fair Lady (Lerner and Loewe) 203
“My Heart Is in the East” (Halevi) 120
mystery plays 190, 194, 197–198
Mystical Poems of Rumi (Rumi) 265
myth of Manco Capac 77, 198–199,
223
Mythological Cycle 199, 200
mythology. See also creation myths;
Holy Grail
Celtic 199–202, 257
flood myths 77, 114, 115, 328
Greek and Roman 202–204, 228,
260
in Middle Ages 199
Native-American. See Native
American literature
Norse 204–205
Eddas and 95
influence of 211
themes in 183, 206
works on 280
Oceanic 204–205, 205–207
Myths and Rites of the Inca (Cristóbal de
Molina) 199
Myths of the Cherokee (Mooney) 216
N
Nahj al Balagha (al-Sharif) 12
Nahuatl poetry 77, 208–209
Napoleon 101
Naqaith of Jarir and al Farazdaq (al
Farazdaq and ibn ‘Atiyya) 105
Narada 315
Native American literature
Aztecs
creation myths 77
poetry 208–209
Chinook myths 63–64
creation myths 75, 77–79, 77–79,
223, 229, 314, 328, 341
Hopi
Coyote tales 75–77, 205, 313
tuuwutsi narratives 313–314
Incas
creation myths 77
myth of Manco Capac 77,
198–199, 223
Nahuatl poetry 77, 208–209
Navajo Nightway Ceremony songs
78, 209–210
Ojibway myths and legends
215–216
Oklahoma Cherokee
creation myths 78
folktales 216–217
O`othham Hoho`ok A`agitha
222–223
telapnaawe narratives 299
White Mountain Apache myths
and tales 224, 327–329
Winnebago
waikan narratives 299, 323,
331
worak narratives 299, 323, 331
Yaqui deer songs 78, 335–337
Zuni
creation myths 78, 299, 341
narrative poetry 78, 328,
340–341
telapnaawe narratives 299
Naturales quaestiones (Seneca) 276
Natural History (Pliny the Elder)
241–242
Natural Questions (Seneca) 276
The Nature of the Gods (Cicero) 70
Navajo
creation myths 77
Nightway Ceremony songs 78,
209–210
Nennius 112
Neo-Confucianism 74, 122
Neoplatonism
exponents of 248, 249
influence of 244
in Middle Ages 139
neoteric poets 62
Neptune 202
Nero (emperor of Rome)
contemporaries of 175, 186, 233,
275
reign of 149, 241
works on 294
Nerva (emperor of Rome) 242
New Ballads 38
New Comedy 21, 188, 240, 302
New History of the Five Dynasties
(Ouyang Xiu) 226
New History of the T’ang Dynasty
(Ouyang Xiu) 226
New Life (Dante) 14, 83, 190
new sweet style 85
Newton, Isaac 101
New York Review of Books 69
Nezahualcoyotl 208
Neza¯mı¯ 210–211
Niane, D. T. 289
Nibelungenlied 211–212
as epic 97
literary criticism on 95, 205, 283,
316, 329–330
medieval literature and 190
versions of 269
Nicholson, Reynold 298
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle) 23, 302
Nightway Ceremony songs 78
Nihon shoki 160
nine gems 153
Nine Songs 252
Niza¯mi. See Neza¯mı¯
Njal’s Saga 212–213, 269
Norse mythology 204–205
Eddas and 95
influence of 211
themes in 183, 206
works on 280
novels
ancient Greek 174
picaresque 233
Roman 18–19
Nukada, Princess 213–214
Nukata Okimi. See Nukada, Princess
Numbakulla brothers 206
Nun’s Priest’s Tale (Chaucer) 263
O
Oceanic mythology 204–205, 205–207
Odes (Horace) 61, 134–135
Odes of Anacreon (Moore) 14
“Ode to Psyche” (Keats) 19
“Ode to the Mantle” (al-Bu¯sírí) 55
Odin 204, 205, 280
Odo of Deuil 80
Odovacar (king of Rome) 50
The Odyssey (Homer) 23–24, 97,
131–134, 202, 322
Oedipus (Seneca) 276
Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles) 286
Oedipus the King (Sophocles) 286,
287–288
Of the Fox and of the Wolf 262
“Of the Gods” (Protagoras)
101
Óg, Fearghal 39
The Ogre (Menander) 188
Ojibway myths and legends
215–216
390 Encyclopedia of World Writers, Beginnings through the 13th Century