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KING ARTHUR
Title: KING ARTHUR
Category: Society & Culture / People
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KING ARTHUR
KING ARTHUR
King Arthur is the figure at the heart of the Arthurian legends. He is said to be the son of Uther Pendragon and Ygraine of Cornwall. Arthur is a near mythic figure in Celtic stories such as Culhwch and Olwen. In early Latin chronicles he is presented as a military leader, the dux bellorum. In later romance he is presented as a king and emperor. One of the questions that has occupied those …showed first 75 words of 384 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 384 total…order of the best knights in the world, that figures in the major versions of the legend from Malory to Tennyson to T. H. White. Central to the myth is the downfall of Arthur's kingdom. It is undermined in
the chronicle tradition by the treachery of Mordred. In the romance tradition that treachery is made possible because of the love of Lancelot and Guinevere.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ashe, Geoffrey. King Arthur. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1985.
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