Quote from Ken Dowden’s “The Uses of Greek Mythology”

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In fact Greek Mythology is a shared fund of motifs and ideas ordered into a shared repertoire of stories. These stories link with, compare and contrast with, and are understood in the light of, other stories in the system. Greek Mythology is an ‘intertext,’ because it is constituted by all the representations of myth ever experienced by its audience and because every new representation gains its sense from how it is positioned in relation to this totality of previous presentations.

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  1. QL says:

    Definitely I can see that as we read on, especially since had zero appreciation for getting into Greek mythology initially.

    Despite my own initial judgment for this unknown subject matter, it has actually been a tad bit enjoyable thus far to see how some of this fictional stuff connects with our modern-day lives as a society.

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