CLAS 203 Chapter Notes -Trado, Utopia, Traditional Story
11 Mar 2013
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There are three types of myths: divine myth, legend, and folktale. A definition widely agreed on is that myth is a traditional story with collective importance. Myths should have a plot, a narrative structure (beginning, middle, and end), characters, and setting. Traditional story is one that has been handed over orally from one storyteller to another without writing ( trado" = hand over ) Myths" have collective importance" myths hold meaning for the group, not just the individual. Since myths are anonymous, plato eventually came to contrast mythos, story or. The teller of a logos takes responsibility for the truth of what is said. A logos is a reasoned explanation of something that will emphasizes a continuing causal sequence, as in the proofs of plane geometry. Folktales are stories whose actors are ordinary people or animals: entertain audience and teach or justify customary patterns of behaviour.
