CLA204H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Phrixus, Eteocles, Epigoni
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Myth is not literature in an of its self. Our experience is through literature, but these those don"t tell the story the same ways as the myth. How myths are used and how they are preserved depends on the author that uses it. Literature uses myth : factor of how myths are changed and the way they are told. Zeus seduces europra in the form of a beautiful bull. Europa is put on the display for the audiences gaze. Europa and the bull sail off to crete. Her brother is the founder of thebes. The oracle tells him to follow the cow. When the cow choses the place, cadmes has to defeat the dragon and has to sow the teeth. Warriors come up and start to fight with each other. This is the foundation story with the dragon slayer. The men that grow from the teeth fight each other. Thebes is unique has 2 separate foundation stories.
