Stories Tell of the Lion: The Persian Tale of The Horse and His Boy (Webinar)
Price range: $18.00 through $50.00
Less well-known than the Narnia books dedicated mostly to the Pevensy siblings, The Horse and His Boy is a tale of lost and recovered identity that traverses a foreign desert landscape filled with oriental gardens, bustling market places, fishermen with mouths full of the words of poet sages, tyrannical kings, and battle-worn heroes inconveniently appearing on horseback to retard the journey of the Narnians and our protagonists.
Is the setting of this book merely coincidence? Or might its very “middle-easterness” tell us something about how to read this story? There is a great tree of stories from which each tale draws, whether intentionally or not, and its Eastern branches are of equal importance to its Western ones. There are many figures and adventures, not only in The Horse and His Boy, but in all of the Narnia books which recall very distinctly tales and legends of the Persian tradition.
If Lewis is telling us something about how to read all stories through the world of his Narnia books, he might be opening the door to the Middle East to us through The Horse and His Boy.
Join Ella Hornstra to discover a world of talking horses, enchanting story tellers, white demons, and great golden lions that exists in the Persian Book of Kings. “The stories tell of a lion”, and that lion might be Aslan on the prowl through the pages of Narnia, or Rustum on the prowl through his trials to free king and country from the grasp of a deadly curse. We will see just how familiar Lewis was with these Persian tales, and how great of a silent role they may play in our own familiar tradition. Let us discover together just how much of the east is in “For Narnia and the North!”
Instructor: Ella Hornstra
Meet Time: This live webinar will meet on February 25th at 7:00 PM ET, and consists of 1 session, approximately 90 minutes long; Lifetime access to recording will be available to students after the live session has completed.
Individual Price: $18 (Non-Refundable)
Family Price for 3 or more students: $50 (Non-Refundable)
How to access the class: After purchase, the link to the live session as well as the eventual recording of the webinar will be made available in the customer’s HHL account under “My Courses” with lifetime access.
Description
Less well-known than the Narnia books dedicated mostly to the Pevensy siblings, The Horse and His Boy is a tale of lost and recovered identity that traverses a foreign desert landscape filled with oriental gardens, bustling market places, fishermen with mouths full of the words of poet sages, tyrannical kings, and battle-worn heroes inconveniently appearing on horseback to retard the journey of the Narnians and our protagonists.
Is the setting of this book merely coincidence? Or might its very “middle-easterness” tell us something about how to read this story? There is a great tree of stories from which each tale draws, whether intentionally or not, and its Eastern branches are of equal importance to its Western ones. There are many figures and adventures, not only in The Horse and His Boy, but in all of the Narnia books which recall very distinctly tales and legends of the Persian tradition.
If Lewis is telling us something about how to read all stories through the world of his Narnia books, he might be opening the door to the Middle East to us through The Horse and His Boy.
Join Ella Hornstra to discover a world of talking horses, enchanting story tellers, white demons, and great golden lions that exists in the Persian Book of Kings. “The stories tell of a lion”, and that lion might be Aslan on the prowl through the pages of Narnia, or Rustum on the prowl through his trials to free king and country from the grasp of a deadly curse. We will see just how familiar Lewis was with these Persian tales, and how great of a silent role they may play in our own familiar tradition. Let us discover together just how much of the east is in “For Narnia and the North!”
Instructor: Ella Hornstra
Meet Time: This live webinar will meet on February 25th at 7:00 PM ET, and consists of 1 session, approximately 90 minutes long; Lifetime access to recording will be available to students after the live session has completed.
Individual Price: $18 (Non-Refundable)
Family Price for 3 or more students: $50 (Non-Refundable)
How to access the class: After purchase, the link to the live session as well as the eventual recording of the webinar will be made available in the customer’s HHL account under “My Courses” with lifetime access.
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