CLA204H1 Midterm: Midterm 2 Notes
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Kinds of traditional tales which also include myth, folktales or fairytales. Remember that pure example of these categories are unlikely to exist. Saga/legend: has a perceptible relationship to history, however it is often fanciful and imaginative. Unlike myth, where an exact date for an event cannot be given. A legend may be true or false, but its main purpose is to connect human history. In myths, the principal characters are gods and goddesses. In legends, the principal characters are humans, even though gods and goddesses often play a role. Legends chiefly: support to tell about events from human past, are stories about heroes. Hierarchy: olympians, minor gods, demigods, heroes, and mortals. The hero and heroine in saga and folktale: There are 10 hero motifs that often appear in greek sagas: hero usually has elements of the extraordinary linked to his birth and his childhood, he inevitably faces opposition of one sort or another from the beginning.
