... literature and mythology. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is certainly a story about civilization. It begins, after all, with the story of Aeneas and the founding of Rome, probably the classic story about the founding of a civilization. It moves on to Felix Brutus, legendarily a grandson of Aeneas and later founder of Britain, and then to the time of King Arthur; basically ... , too. It is in courtly literature such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight that magical beings are seen as coming from another place outside of civilization, generally, as Kieckhefer notes, as "fairies, immortal be...

• Word Count: 3062
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... literature and mythology. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is certainly a story about civilization. It begins, after all, with the story of Aeneas and the founding of Rome, probably the classic story about the founding of a civilization. It moves on to Felix Brutus, legendarily a grandson of Aeneas and later founder of Britain, and then to the time of King Arthur; basically ... , too. It is in courtly literature such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight that magical beings are seen as coming from another place outside of civilization, generally, as Kieckhefer notes, as "fairies, immortal be...

• Word Count: 3189
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School