CLAS104 Lecture 1: CLAS104 WEEK 1 READINGS

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

Part one the myths of creation: the gods. No single theory of myth can cover all kinds of myth. Word myth comes from greek work mythos, which means word, speech, tale, or story, and that is essenially what a myth is: a story. True myth or myth proper and saga or legend: Used for storied primarily concerned with the gods and humankind"s relaions with them. Saga or legend has a percepible relaionship to history; however fanciful and imaginaive, it has its roots in historical fact. Folktales, hero or heroine, who will triumph in the end; their goal is primarily, but not necessarily solely, to entertain. Fairytales may be classiied as paricular kinds of folktales, deined as short, imaginaive, tradiional tales with a high moral and magical content . Rarely, if ever do we ind a prisine, uncontaminated example of any one of these forms.