CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Apotheosis, Labrys, Lavinium
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What we see myth as: a system: always gains sense in its relativity of previous myths retelling of old ideas. Gains meaning from what came from before and what came after: always myth: every place had own stories. Share myths and make sense to eachother. Backdrop of a lot of myths (eg. agamemnon from mycenae) Heroes transmitted from this era, changed and obscured over time into archaic and. Disrupted by destruction that lead to the dark ages. Fall of mycenaean age beginning of writing again. Trojan wars (if real) around this time ending mycenaean age dorian invasion. Good communication and shared culture for myth cluster. Must be ways for myths to travel: oral transmission of the myths: anybody can do this the people who are important to study are poets and epic poets: their stuff eventually gets written down. Beginning of the composition of myths: not true, no idea what came first.
