CLAA06H3 Lecture Notes - Vladimir Propp, Roman Mythology, Typhon
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Folktale: humans are the principle actors but they can also entail animals with human features. There are different types of folktales such as; Folktale motifs can also be a diverse factor in the categorization of the folktale. The quest: magical object (cid:0) hero (cid:0) reward (riches, marriage, title) Studied the morphology of the folktale, studied folktale, same order, all the same type of myth. Strauss said that there are multiple accounts of the same story; society needs to look at the myth. Helladic (surrounding islands) and cycladic (main land) people inhabited. Greece they could possibly have worshipped a fertility goddess (there are small figurines suggesting this) they didn"t speak greek and we still can"t decipher their language. Minoans, king minos ruled the island of crete, they also didn"t speak. Greek and we only have tablets that we can"t yet decipher as well. They had elaborate palaces and have many artifacts portraying the bull and a double-headed axe.
