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C. Scott Littleton Ph.D.
Ph.D.

Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
 is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology for Occidental College
Occidental College

Occidental College is a small, Private university, Mixed-sex education Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Los Angeles, California....
 in Los Angeles, California.

He is one of the proponents of the theory (or related theories) that states that the historical basis
Historical basis for King Arthur

The historical basis of King Arthur is a source of considerable debate among historians. The King Arthur of Arthurian legend appears in many legends but it has not been decisively established whether his origin was entirely mythical or whether he was based on one or more historical figures....
 for King Arthur
King Arthur

King Arthur is a legendary Britons leader who, according to medieval histories and Romance , led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century....
 and the Knights of the Round Table
Knights of the Round Table

Knights of the Round Table were those men awarded the highest order of Chivalry at the Court of King Arthur in the Literature cycle the Matter of Britain....
 were a second-century Roman
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 officer named Lucius Artorius Castus
Lucius Artorius Castus

Lucius Artorius Castus was a military commander of ancient Rome, suggested by some to be the historical basis for King Arthur....
 and Sarmatian
Sarmatians

The Sarmatians, Sarmat? or Sauromat? were a people of Ancient Iranian peoples origin. Mentioned by Classics authors, they migrated from Central Asia to the Ural Mountains around fifth century B.C....
 auxiliary horsemen
Auxiliaries (Roman military)

Auxiliaries formed the standing non-citizen corps of the Roman army of the Principate , alongside the citizen Roman legion. By the 2nd century, the auxilia contained the same number of infantry as the legions and in addition provided almost all the Roman army's Roman cavalry and more specialised troops ....
, which Artorius supposedly commanded in Britain
Roman Britain

Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410. The Romans referred to their province as Britannia....
.

Education
He attended Redondo Union High School, Redondo Beach, CA (1946-50), served in the U.S.






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C. Scott Littleton Ph.D.
Ph.D.

Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
 is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology for Occidental College
Occidental College

Occidental College is a small, Private university, Mixed-sex education Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Los Angeles, California....
 in Los Angeles, California.

He is one of the proponents of the theory (or related theories) that states that the historical basis
Historical basis for King Arthur

The historical basis of King Arthur is a source of considerable debate among historians. The King Arthur of Arthurian legend appears in many legends but it has not been decisively established whether his origin was entirely mythical or whether he was based on one or more historical figures....
 for King Arthur
King Arthur

King Arthur is a legendary Britons leader who, according to medieval histories and Romance , led the defence of Britain against the Saxon invaders in the early 6th century....
 and the Knights of the Round Table
Knights of the Round Table

Knights of the Round Table were those men awarded the highest order of Chivalry at the Court of King Arthur in the Literature cycle the Matter of Britain....
 were a second-century Roman
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 officer named Lucius Artorius Castus
Lucius Artorius Castus

Lucius Artorius Castus was a military commander of ancient Rome, suggested by some to be the historical basis for King Arthur....
 and Sarmatian
Sarmatians

The Sarmatians, Sarmat? or Sauromat? were a people of Ancient Iranian peoples origin. Mentioned by Classics authors, they migrated from Central Asia to the Ural Mountains around fifth century B.C....
 auxiliary horsemen
Auxiliaries (Roman military)

Auxiliaries formed the standing non-citizen corps of the Roman army of the Principate , alongside the citizen Roman legion. By the 2nd century, the auxilia contained the same number of infantry as the legions and in addition provided almost all the Roman army's Roman cavalry and more specialised troops ....
, which Artorius supposedly commanded in Britain
Roman Britain

Roman Britain refers to those parts of the island of Great Britain controlled by the Roman Empire between AD 43 and 410. The Romans referred to their province as Britannia....
.

Early life


C. Scott Littleton was born in Los Angeles, CA, in 1933 and grew up in Hermosa Beach, CA.

Education


He attended Redondo Union High School, Redondo Beach, CA (1946-50), served in the U.S. Army in Japan and Korea (1950-52), and attended El Camino College in Torrance, CA (1952-54), before enrolling at UCLA in 1955, where he received his B.A. (1957), M.A. (1962), and Ph.D. (1965). He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at UCLA in 1957.

Professional Life


Dr. Littleton taught anthropology at Occidental College
Occidental College

Occidental College is a small, Private university, Mixed-sex education Liberal arts colleges in the United States located in Los Angeles, California....
 in Los Angeles from 1962 to 2002. His main research areas are comparative Indo-European mythology and folklore, the origin of the legends of King Arthur and the Holy Grail, and Japanese culture, with an emphasis on Shinto. In recent years he has also researched the occult and the paranormal, especially the UFO phenomneon.

Publications


Littleton is the author and editor of several scholarly books

The New Comparative Mythology (3rd Edition, University of California Press, 1982)

(editor) The Sacred East: An Illustrated Guide to Hinduism, Buddhism, Hinduism Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto (Paperback edition, Ulysses Press, 1999)

From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reinterpretation of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and the Holy Grail (paperback edition, Garland Publishing Inc., 2000) Co-Authored with Linda A. Malcor
Linda A. Malcor

Linda Ann Malcor Ph.D is an United States scholar of King Arthur. She is one of the proponents of the theory that states that the historical basis for King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table were a second-century Roman Empire officer named Lucius Artorius Castus and Sarmatians Auxiliaries , which Artorius supposedly commanded in Roma...


Shinto (Oxford University Press, 2002)

He is also the author of a science fiction novel

Phase Two (paperback edition, The Invisible College Press, 2002)

and a memoir

2500 Strand: Growing up in Hermosa Beach, California, during World War II (The Red Pill Press, 2008)

Personal life


C. Scott Littleton, has two adult daughters and lives with his wife Mary Ann in Pasadena, CA.