CLASS 2604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Odysseus, Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
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Working definition of myth (based on what greeks said) based on 98% greeks. Barbour word for non-greeks they considered outsiders as barbaric : led to work barbarian. Narrative has beginning, middle, and end: meant to entertain and to pleasure (extract desires, only hearing the story, not living it so it is more entertaining , but also supposed to instruct give info. Sacred vs. profane (both latin terms: sacred stuff concerned gods and religion, profane gods are still present but more removed, not as involved, profane means outside religious spot, any non-sacred talk was profanity e. g. science. Mythos greek word: romans no real sense of myth but when they wanted to refer to myth, they said. Celtic myth if you know how to do it, you can go back to sared time. If you went the wrong way around the sacred building, you would disappear and end up amongst the faeries.
