CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Animal Stories, Satire, Ritualism In The Church Of England
22 Mar 2017
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Mythological settings may be unnatural, encounter myths of cities that are historical. May be human, historical, or supernatural beings/ settings ie. underworld supernatural. Tragedy action that is complete, whole, has certain magnitude. Looking at a myth and story will be presented with initial situation (beginning), that doesn"t conform to aristotle"s definition. Myth to be considered myth: must also be a traditional story. Handed down orally from one storyteller of another, without intervention of writing. All myths we are reading looking at literary accounts, written versions. Understand that authors didn"t invent stories, they took tradition and made record of it, with their own purposes eg. myth of atlantis (in textbook) - probably invented. Treated as myth because it was analyzed as though it were a myth, Plato designed it/ presented it as a myth. For the purposes of this course, it doesn"t count as a traditional tale for the greeks themselves. It"s simply a story invented by one of their authors.
