CLSC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Diodorus Siculus, Trojan War, Euhemerism
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Long narrative consisting of many different connected stories that deal with several generations of the same family and take place over a long space of time or vast space. Deals with gods or hero in unspeci ed time. Poem derived from an old german saga- volsungensaga. Takes place in a city of troy. Involves the destruction of troy by hercules. Continues 2 centuries after the trojan war. Queen of sparta before she was the bride/mistress of the price of troy. Narrative where elements of the story consistently stand for something else. He claims to have gone to an island of the indian ocean. On the ocean he found the tomb of zeus. Realized that myths are stories about real people and real events that over time acquired. The belief/theory that all myths originated from the repeated retelling with embellishments what had originally been about real people and real events. Real problem is that you don"t have any speci c info.
