Classical Studies 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lionsgate, Pediment, Tyrant
13 Apr 2016
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A myth is a spoken word, an uterance, a thing said. It is something that is orally transmited, where we don"t know whom the original author is, and person who spoke it is. It is something that is passed on to your kids over ime, and a story passed on to their kids, etc. It is a way to understand and make sense of the unknown, the inexplicable, and the mysterious. When we are perplexed by something such as a comet or thunder, we have a scieniic explanaion of why that occurs, but way back a long ime ago, they did not have nearly as much scieniic knowledge and reasoning. Narraive is a way for us to organize stuf, sort confusion, and make sense of the world. For that reason we ind myths in all sorts of logical inconsistencies. Myths consist of love, death, history and war. Myths reinforce and relect cultural values, desires and fears.
