CLASSIC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mytheme, Structural Anthropology
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The problem of women: trouble, strife, and the pitfalls of ploughing. Present and future woes: the age of iron. Hesiod did not want to be born during his age: he wanted to be born in the ages of heros. It was better to be born when things are really good or just really bad. Marriage and the ambiguity of human existence sacrifice of humans. People needed to marry or they will die alone. Pandora: concealment by design linked to food introduced to the good life then adores her the ambivalence of hope sickness came to men zeus takes away the noise of the sickness. He made sickness come out of nowhere because it was unpredictable. Claude levi strauss founding father of te structures" approach structural linguistic words that have natural meaning why these specific words. Pats of myths can connect to other myths.
