A literary cycle is a group of stories focused on common figures, often (though not necessarily) based on mythical figures or loosely on historical ones. Cycles which deal with an entire country are sometimes referred to as matters. A fictional cycle is often referred to as a
mythos.
The
Mahabharata, the world's longest epic poem, many of whose stories deal with the lives of Indian mythological characters, most notably
Krishna
Nasreddin (1208-1285) is a character in the folklore of the
Muslim world from
the Balkans to
China, and a hero of humorous short stories and satirical anecdotes.[1]
^Hunziker, Sara (2019). Ramona, Mihaila (ed.). Myth, Symbol, and Ritual: Elucidatory Paths to the Fantastic Unreality. University of Bucharest. pp. 357–361.
ISBN978-6-061-61037-2.
A literary cycle is a group of stories focused on common figures, often (though not necessarily) based on mythical figures or loosely on historical ones. Cycles which deal with an entire country are sometimes referred to as matters. A fictional cycle is often referred to as a
mythos.
The
Mahabharata, the world's longest epic poem, many of whose stories deal with the lives of Indian mythological characters, most notably
Krishna
Nasreddin (1208-1285) is a character in the folklore of the
Muslim world from
the Balkans to
China, and a hero of humorous short stories and satirical anecdotes.[1]
^Hunziker, Sara (2019). Ramona, Mihaila (ed.). Myth, Symbol, and Ritual: Elucidatory Paths to the Fantastic Unreality. University of Bucharest. pp. 357–361.
ISBN978-6-061-61037-2.