First off, I’m sorry for not posting last week, it totally escaped my mind, so I’ll try to make up for it here. The last question on the midterm threw me off a bit, I still really don’t fully understand that essay on Artemis. Though, I’ll admit I only read through it twice, and really […]
We went and saw the new 300 and figured, hey this should be relevant for a blog post….nope, there’s no Greek mythology or really any mention of anything mythological in it. Within the narrative of the movie, there is a belief in Eastern magic and religion that allows Xerxes to actually become the giant and […]
I don’t have anything insightful to say that hadn’t already been said in class on Wednesday with the whole myth and ritual discussion, but here’s my contribution to myths: Bettermyths.com! If ya’ll go here http://bettermyths.com/387-2/#link-for-greekroman you’ll be directed to the category of Greek and Roman myths on a website called BetterMyths by a guy named […]
Myth v Legend Hopefully the link works here. I was watching some modern myth making aka the nba playoffs and I saw this commercial. Apparently we have been going about the comparison of myth and legend all wrong and the real difference is a cape. I don’t really have much intellectual to say about the […]
So I’ve been playing around with ways to organize my paper, I think I’ll go with the Menelaus/Odysseus topic. What would be a good way to go about it? I’m thinking the best way would just to use the good old expository method, get my point across simply and directly, but I’m open to other […]
Rather than write about the same post here is a joint post, also spoiler alerts…lots of them. To those who haven’t seen the show, fix that and sorry for the wall of nonsense to the uninitiated We keep talking about the show in class for super academic reasons, but just in case we needed […]
Reading Camus’ story of the Myth of Sisyphus was very interesting to me. My initial reaction was similar to Dawn Eve’s, because surely a man doomed to forever fail at a simple task over and over again is not happy. However, when I got to the line, “His rock is his thing,” I stopped, and […]
The Myth of Sisyphus of Camus was ridiculous (partly because the French are always ridiculous). Camus says that Sisyphus is “happy” with his eternal punishment because he keeps “going back to his rock.” Firstly, nobody is happy with an eternal punishment, Sisyphus is damned to roll a rock up a hill and have it fall […]
The reading on the categorization of these types of stories goes into great detail about the various characteristics that mark a story as a myth, legend or folktale. I think that these categories are fairly arbitrary and pointless however; more importantly, they add nothing to the stories or our understanding, in my opinion. Although he […]