Tracing the structural evolution and cross-cultural migration of narrative motifs.
Evolutionary Path: ATU 510A (Cinderella)
7th Century BCE
The Persecuted Heroine (Proto-Type)
Ancient Near East / Asia
9th Century CE
Ye Xian
China
1634
Cenerentola
Italy (Basile)
1st Century BCE
Rhodopis
Egypt / Greece
1812
Aschenputtel
Germany (Grimm)
Methodology
This visualization uses the Historical-Geographical Method to map the transmission of tales. Nodes represent documented literary versions or significant oral transcriptions.