Concerning Unicorns
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3780500 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W H Riddell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1945 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 76 |
| Pages | 194-202 |
| Publication date | 1945-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00019062 |
| OpenAlex | W4251296845 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
To travel hopefully' says Robert Louis Stevenson 'is a better thing than to arrive': and whoever would track a legend to its source must needs be an optimistic traveller, for his prospects of reaching his destination are remote. The man who indulges in this form of sport-and it has its fascinations-soon becomes aware that amid the records of the Ancients, which form his Happy Hunting-ground, inaccuracy and credulity abound; whereas dependable facts are few and far between. Somewhere or other a story starts-the narration of some actual incident or spectacle outside the common run. It passes from mouth to mouth, amassing a gradual increment of falsehood as it goes; until, by the time it crystallizes into legend it has become a fabrication inseparable from fiction, except perhaps for the survival within it of some chance and apparently superfluous detail, which gives us a clue to its origin and to the incident which give it birth
Art · Art history · Front (military) · Geography · Legend · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Spectacle · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Joseph Conrad and Literature · Law
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1971 - 1971 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |