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Legends and Truths in Bulgarian History

Legends and Truths in Bulgarian History

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Product Code:
3126-01
ISBN
978-619-01-1175-7
SKU
12.0089
Year
02-02-2023
Pages
336
Size
145/225 мм
Weight
0.350 kg
Cover Type
Hardcover
Genre
True Crime Investigations, Behind the Scenes

Rosen Tahov

Rosen Tahov

Rosen Tahov is a literary historian, publicist and translator. Born in 1959 in Sofia, he graduated in Bulgarian philology and history at Sofia University. He works at the Institute of Literature at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and in the newspapers Narodnaya Yadezh, Puls, Pohled, 24 Hours, Trud. He is the author of the monographs "The Great Bulgarian Sensations", "The Great Parliamentary Circ…

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Historians are suspicious of legends. For them they are folklore, which has no scientific value; they are not documents, but folk creations. No serious study can be built on legend; legend, however, is in the antechamber of truth. 

The word comes from the Latin legere, "to read," with the intrinsic meaning "that which is worthy to be read."

Few specialists read, more are laymen. They believe the legends and unlock the secrets of history; sometimes they make remarkable discoveries.

The case of Heinrich Schliemann is classic. The amateur archaeologist sets out on the trail of Homer's Iliad, which is in the space of legends. He excavated the Hisarlak on the coast of Asia Minor and Mycenae on the Peloponnese. The treasure of Priam and the mask of Agamemnon come to light. The two finds are not from the Trojan War era, but enter the golden fund of world archaeology.

How is it in our country?

The answer is given by the monograph "Legends and Truths in Bulgarian History".

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