Who was Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Wolves in the Culture, Mythology, and Religion of Ancient Greece, Rome, and Scandinavia

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dc.contributor.authorMontgomery, Luke
dc.date.accessioned2021-08-10T22:49:50Z
dc.date.available2021-08-10T22:49:50Z
dc.date.copyright2021en_US
dc.date.issued2021-08-10
dc.description.abstractMy JCURA project is an analysis of wolves in European folklore and religion, namely wolves in Ancient Greek, Roman, and Scandinavian Sources. The work begins analyzing the reception of the wolf as the animal itself, then the wolf in the religions and mythologies of the three respective cultures, and finally werewolf folktales in ancient Greece, Rome, and Scandinavia. In all three cultures wolves are thought of as dull, ferocious, and rapacious creatures. Each culture has a different story surrounding the wolf: In Greece the story of Lykaion transforming into a wolf in Arcadia lead to the festival of Lykaia, Rome had the Lupercalia which celebrated the nursing of Romulus and Remus by the She-Wolf, and Norse mythology has the giant wolf Fenrir who devours the god Odin during Ragnarok. Werewolves appear in all three cultures. Lykaion is the standout werewolf in Greek mythology, along with a myriad of other werewolf stories. The most prominent story of werewolves in Norse folklore is the father and son pair Sigmund and Sinfjotli who find wolf skins which allow them to take the form of wolves. Wolves are prominent features in the stories of all three cultures and all have a place for the wolf within their mythology.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduateen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipJamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/13236
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectGreece
dc.subjectRome
dc.subjectHistory
dc.subjectWerewolves
dc.subjectFolklore
dc.subjectMythology
dc.subjectWolves
dc.subjectVikings
dc.subjectScandinavia
dc.subjectNorse Culture
dc.subjectComparative Mythology
dc.subjectJamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA)
dc.subject.departmentDepartment of Greek and Roman Studies
dc.titleWho was Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Wolves in the Culture, Mythology, and Religion of Ancient Greece, Rome, and Scandinaviaen_US
dc.typePosteren_US

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