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  1. opaltiger

    Did the Greek and Roman mythologists mean for their stories to be taken literally?

    Oh god, please don't repeat the trite belief that history is 'just names and dates'. It really, really isn't. What Lorem Ipsum was saying is that classics is the study not only of ancient history but of ancient literature, philosophy, languages, and so on. Which, I agree, sets it apart from...
  2. opaltiger

    Did the Greek and Roman mythologists mean for their stories to be taken literally?

    I've had a look around, and I don't know where you're getting this from. Wiki tells me that "in the study of folklore, a myth is a sacred narrative explaining how the world and humankind came to be in their present form", which described the Bible pretty well, I think. I think there is a...
  3. opaltiger

    Did the Greek and Roman mythologists mean for their stories to be taken literally?

    "True myth"? To my knowledge "mythology" can refer to any set of traditional stories. Why would they have to be irrelevant?
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