HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Trojan War, Sophocles, Phemius
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Definition of myths: story or story elements, traditional no text, author, only versions, subject to group control gives us a window into what it is to be human, myth gets shaped. We call versions of myth sources sources do have authors. For greeks myth was never the focal purpose, it was always told for another reason: religious rituals and ceremonies. In ancient greece there were things that were devine, but not gods ex) daemon, nymph- land, naiad water. Muthologia rational study of these nonrational stories. Mythology can also be a body of myth as an organized whole. Philosophers were the ones who started studying myth this was only possible after the greeks became literary. Water unites and land divides the greek world. Epic poems are ones where the main characters are the heros and they are being messed with by the gods. Homer is known for the iliad and the odyssey.
