In mythology, myths are defined as narratives—stories that present a chain of events in a temporal sequence or that focus on a single episode of action.
A significant characteristic of myths is that they tend to appear in multiple forms. They are retold so frequently that many versions of the story develop. While poems, drawings, musical compositions, and other authorial works usually have an original or master form that remains the same, myths are not fixed. They are retold and represented in many ways, including in literature, ritual, music, and art, as long as they function in culture.
Each myth belongs to an identifiable mythical tradition, an entire set of other myths, bound to the same culture. Such a system of interrelated myths is called mythology. But the word mythology has another meaning as well—the study of myths and of different theoretical and methodological approaches to them. In this course, we will study both myths and mythology.
Give an example of something that is frequently incorrectly referred to as a myth (this can include legends, fairy tales and urban legends, as well as things that are "untrue"), given how we define it in this class, and explain why it is not myth.
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1. In mythology, myths are defined as narratives—stories that
present a chain of events in a temporal sequence or that focus
on a single episode of action.
A significant characteristic of myths is that they tend to appear
in multiple forms. They are retold so frequently that many
versions of the story develop. While poems, drawings, musical
compositions, and other authorial works usually have an
original or master form that remains the same, myths are not
fixed. They are retold and represented in many ways, including
in literature, ritual, music, and art, as long as they function in
culture.
Each myth belongs to an identifiable mythical tradition, an
entire set of other myths, bound to the same culture. Such a
system of interrelated myths is called mythology. But the word
mythology has another meaning as well—the study of myths and
of different theoretical and methodological approaches to them.
In this course, we will study both myths and mythology.
Give an example of something that is frequently incorrectly
referred to as a myth (this can include legends, fairy tales and
urban legends, as well as things that are "untrue"), given how
we define it in this class, and explain why it is not myth.
