Greek Mythology
September 9, 2014
Food for thought …
In The Uses of Greek Mythology, Ken Dowden writes:
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. (it is a large tapestry)