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[Shadow Wolf]

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Arthur Hansen <arthurh3535 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I'm wondering about ones that go back at least a couple thousand years.
> >
> > Are you talking about Lancelot in the Arthurian Chronicles?
> >
>
> The Arthurian Chronicles themselves aren't quite that old (King Arthur was
> in the 5th or 6th century AD, apparently, and his stories didn't appear
> until after 1000, maybe after 1100).  I thought Lancelot was original to
> those tales?  (Though, yes, adding Lancelot to the Arthurian Chronicles was
> otherwise an example.)
>
> Then again, this would be the right sort of story, and perhaps the
> difference in maximum chain length between one and two thousand years is
> not so high.
>

The Bible is probably a longer example - the New Testament obviously builds
on the Old Testament, and even within the New Testament, Mark appears to be
based on ("fanfic of") some older Greek sources, Matthew and Luke are based
on Mark and the Q document, and John is primarily based on Luke. Dante's
Inferno is clearly Biblical fanfiction, Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise
Regained build on that, and some more modern Christian authors build
further (e.g. LeHaye and Jenkins' "Left Behind" series, base primarily on
Darby's interpretation of Revelation, but with definite traces of Milton).
And on ff.net, you will find Left Behind fanfiction...
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