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Questions asking for identification of a literary work (story, novel, poem, play, etc) or author, based on descriptive details provided within the question. Please be thorough and provide ALL of the details that you can remember when using this tag. (For questions seeking the original source of a known quote, use the [quote-source] tag instead.)
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Vintage book on Hieronymus Bosch
I came across a BBC documentary from 1980 about Hieronymus Bosch. There is a scene where the narrator is in his study and we can see the books on his table, I would like to find what the biggest book …
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Red Riding Hood Unabridged?
Below are my painstaking research and failed purchases, though somewhat long-winded, my aim is simple: to find a version of Little Red Riding Hood that meets the following criteria:
original (200+ ye …
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Locating the "Yan-king-fu" text, allegedly dating to 764
Within the Encyclopedia Iranica some French research papers are cited that allude to a Chinese source text by "Yan-king-fu". The relevance is that the days of the week were written in Sogdian:
The pl …
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Does Nicanor's account of Alexander survive?
I came across allusions to a source in one of the volumes of the Ante-Nicene Fathers, relevant summary by Oxford:
The learned Roman scholar and antiquarian M. Terentius Varro decided
to take matters …
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In search of: The Lexicon of Exekias/Ezekias
I caught part of a TV segment that was featuring classical sources, the narrator mentioned one text he referred to as "The Lexicon of Exekias"
I jotted it down, thinking it would be easy to find onlin …
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Retrieving Beckman (1982) rendering of the Zoroastrian Avesta
I'm currently reading Drakon by Ogden which is a monograph on serpent cults and mythological accounts of serpent-related happenings in ancient Greece. In the introduction, Ogden briefly overviews theo …
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Locating Babylonian birth-omen tablets
It seems the Babylonian divinatory tablets is in the public domain, however, I'm quite unable to find English translations for it.
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2013/12/cuneiform-texts-from- …
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Publications of Freud's psycho-analysis of Little Red Riding Hood
Seems LRRH is spread out across Freud's works:
This site lists some works that appear to be by Freud and may contain reference to LRRH:
On The Occurrence in Dreams of Material from Fairy Tales
The Un …
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Publications of Freud's psycho-analysis of Little Red Riding Hood
I have heard that Freud wrote at length on the Grimm Fairy Tale: Little Red Riding Hood, highlighting all the suggestive themes and symbolism and "id-like" interpretations. However, I was not able to …