CLAS 203 Lecture 1: Clas 203
27 Nov 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Myth: mythos (word, speech, tale, story: used for stories primarily dealing with gods and humans" relations with them. Legend (saga): tale with relationship to history; imaginative or fantastic but has roots in historical fact: ex. Folktales: stories of adventures of common folk , sometimes with fantastic creatures, and the hero/heroine wins with a fantastic strategy. Tales follow typical motifs and their primary role is to teach and justify cultural behaviour: fairytale: a subcategory of folktale: usually short, has moral and magical content, ex. Cinderella- fantastic method leads to happy ending, true love conquers all, being kind is rewarded. Etiological, rational, metaphor, allegory, symbolic, historical, (or merely entertainment) A purpose: stories that comfort us in a terrifying and unpredictable world; explains unknown. Etiological: (causes- aitia: an explanation of a fact or custom; how something originated; where it came from, where ursa major and ursa minor comes from. Zeus impregnanted calisto, who was a follower of artemis.
