Aglauros, in Greek mythology, is the eldest daughter of the Athenian king Cecrops. Aglauros died with her sisters by leaping in fear from the Acropolis after seeing the infant Erechthonius, a human with a serpent’s tail. The Roman poet Ovid, however, related that Aglauros was turned to stone by the god Mercury in retribution for her attempt to frustrate his abduction of Herse, Aglauros’ youngest sister. Aglauros and her sisters (Herse and Pandrosos) were apparently at first fertility deities. Aglauros had a sanctuary on the Acropolis in which young men of military age swore an oath to her as well as to Zeus and to other deities. The honour, however, may have stemmed from another legend — that Aglauros had sacrificed herself for the city during a protracted war.
African Development Bank: French Banque Africaine De Développement African organization established in August 1963 and operational …..
2 The African Greek Orthodox Church is a religious movement in East Africa that represents a prolonged search for a Christianity ……..
3 African literature is the traditional oral and written literatures together with the mainly 20th-century literature written …..
4 Oral traditions: The poetic and narrative forms of oral tradition among those peoples living south of the Sahara are immensely rich and …..
5 Myths: African creation stories are as varied and imaginative as elsewhere in the world. The Kono of Guinea believe that the original force …..
6 Poetry in African literature: The praise name is probably the most widely used poetic form in Africa. It is applied not only to gods ….
7 Folktales in African literature: The best-known type of African folktale is the animal- trickster tale. In Bantu Africa ….
8 Proverbs and riddles in African literature: “Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten,” an Igbo proverb says. The art ………..
9 Survival of oral tradition in African literature: Many oral traditions, particularly those associated with traditional ritual, are disappearing …………..
0 Literature in African languages: Evidence of the indigenous written literature of Africa is in some regions ancient and in others comparatively …..
1 The rich oral literature of the Yoruba, who live mainly in Nigeria and Benin, consists of myths, legends, folktales, and song. It is still flourishing ……….
2 There has been a tradition of Arabic writing in Hausaland (northern Nigeria and Niger) since the end of the 15th century. The ………..
3 The oldest literary language in Ethiopia, Geʿez, which is related to classical Arabic, was first used for the writing of Christian texts in the 4th ……….
4 Besides the centuries-old practice of composing religious verse inArabic, Somalia has a very old and rich tradition of oral literature in Somali, which ………..
5 Written poetry in Swahili — which drew inspiration from the Islamic literature in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu taken to the east coast ………
6 Writing in Shona, the major African Language group of Zimbabwe, is fairly recent, little of note appearing before the 1950s …..
7 Early Zulu writing at the beginning of the 20th century comprised mostly historical and religious works. Magema Fuze’s reconstruction …….
8 Xhosa: As in Zulu literature, the themes of the heroic past and of the opposition between beneficent tradition and harsh modernity ……..
9 Modern African literature in European languages:Though the written literatures in African languages antedate in origin those ………
9b The first contemporary literature was born as a protest against French rule and the policy of assimilation. Its leading figure was Léopold Senghor …….
0 African literature in Portuguese: The 20th-century poetry of former Portuguese Africa, first widely known through the Angolan Mário Pinto …..
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