CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Christian Gottlob Heyne, Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle, Johann Gottfried Herder
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Chronological distinction between mythic and human time. Synonymous , at first, with logos" and epos". Mythos" often referred to pejoratively (not telling the right story) Thucydides opposes his empirical history to the fabulos" (to mythoeides) Mythos" (irrational and false stories) vs. logos" (true, reasoned, philosophical propositions) When each of the gods came and whether they existed always and of what sort they were in appearance, the greeks did not know until yesterday or the day before, so to speak. Marcel detienne (1981: the invention of mythology) Greek myth does not exist by itself, nor is there any homogeneous system or body of myths. Both are intellectual constructs derived from mythology, the scientific study of myth which can be traced to the 18th entury. Mythology arose in reaction to what was scanalous" or other" in greek myth. Plato seen as originator of mythology" in antiquity. Myth was a religious expression lead to ritual and religion.
