Word: arthurian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like Arthurian Legends. Just as they do not accept the Arthurian legends or the Chanson de Roland as historic fact, many classicists agree with Berve's thesis that Homer's poems are far from literal truth. But few are quite so willing to reject Homer entirely. Simply because Troy seems to have been much smaller than Homer's description of it in the Iliad, says British Archaeologist James Mellaart, does not preclude the possibility that Homer may have patterned his story on an actual event. Because Homer wrote 400 years after the war, adds U.S. Archaeologist Rhys...
This passage from the ringing first novel in T. H. White's Arthurian cycle, The Once and Future King, is a shade too piteous to be in character. The Sword in the Stone comes so near to being a perfect book that the momentary faltering in Merlyn's tone is worth examining. In her compassionate biography of White, Author Sylvia Townsend Warner suggests that it was White himself who missed his love, who lay at night listening to the roar of his veins, and who swallowed great draughts of learning as a painkiller...
...designer in London, and for a brief moment Julie considered retiring. "But," as Tony says, "work was the only thing she knew." And besides, Moss Hart, with Lerner and Frederick Loewe, authors of My Fair Lady, wanted Julie to play opposite Burton in Camelot, a stylish retelling of the Arthurian legend. Camelot lacked the magic of Fair Lady, but audiences loved it. Julie had a ball too. Recalls Burton: "One night a large, woolly dog in the show elected to empty himself in a huge lump in center stage. In full view of the audience, Julie danced around it singing...
...were taken of the premises, which include half-buried pre-Roman ramparts dating back to the Iron Age. Then, in a three-week dig that has just ended, three big exploratory holes were carved in the dry loam to a depth of about 7 ft. Out of them came "Arthurian matter" called "minor jackpots" by the diggers, one of whom headily claimed to have found a carved letter "A." Presumably that meant something different in A.D. 500 than it did in Nathaniel Hawthorne's time...
According to their styles and materials, the pin and the pottery go back to the late 5th or early 6th century A.D. The newly found ramparts and decayed posthole matter have yet to undergo close analysis, but experts guess that they also date from the Arthurian period. If further scrutiny proves those estimates correct, skeptics may be forced to harbor the notion that the hill site was quite possibly the site of Camelot-a somewhat less opulent Camelot, of course, than Julie Andrews and Richard Burton inhabited. Toward that end, Arthurians are now raising more cash for a full-scale...