The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
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A heroic nature is very Greek.
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene.
The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
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