Anachronism
Anacrhronism
Definition
- in history, attributing to an historical period a characteristic or concept that did not exist during that historical time
- ex. Viking horned helmets
- horned helmets on Vikings was an invention of a German director of a Wagnerian opera, who staged the Vikings depicted in it wearing horned helmets
- Wagner wrote the "Ring cycle" operas basd on his romnanticism of Viking or Nordic mythology
- Sources:
- horned helmets on Vikings was an invention of a German director of a Wagnerian opera, who staged the Vikings depicted in it wearing horned helmets
- ex. Viking horned helmets
- see also
- ** Apocryphal