Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
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Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.
The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for such things as the moon and the sun and rainbows, they tried to understand them by telling stories.
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art.
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