What is the meaning of mythology ?
Literally from the greek mythos and logein : talk in a rational way of poetic narrative.
It 's a very complex discipline that can be analyzed in different perspectives, whose body is given by a set of narratives in most oral literature, and almost always telling stories of characters outside of historical time .
Myths: memory of events that actually occurred?
Many civilizations believe that their myths are real events that happened and passed down orally from generation to generation to keep the memory alive, while others, more culturally elevated, question the literal truth of their myths wondering why the birth of these stories so old.
's interpretation evemeristica.
The first attempt to explain the presence of mythological stories in their own culture, was given by the greek philosopher Evemero lived between the fourth and third century. AC, which took its name from the 'evemeristica interpretation of Greek myths.
The explanation to which it has come with this interpretation is that the myths are in fact stories of historical events, but were handed down orally in their much emphasized, then the second 's interpretation of the mythology of the evemeristica were in fact ancient kings and warriors over "generations" have been mythologized and deified.
The explanation of Plotinus and Porphyry.
Other Greek philosophers c 'is those who supported the argument that the myths they had no historical interpretation, but only moral teachings were expressed in the form of metaphor.
modern theories.
Among the more recent work includes the assumption of Giambattista Vico, philosopher and historian of the seventeenth century. , Who said that the myth was born from 'inability of men to express abstract concepts, expressing so with figurative and poetic images.
An 'other assumptions that are widespread in the eighteenth century. was that the assertion that all the myths they had originated from the ancient cults of the Sun , whose massive presence there is worldwide.
In the nineteenth century. with the philologist Max Muller states that the myth was not merely a poetic description of natural events, and the Gods of the names that were given to these phenomena.
A more detailed study on 'myths of origin was made between the late nineteenth century. and early twentieth by Sigmund Freud and his followers , first among them Carl Gustav Jung .
Their study on the birth of the myth is based on two points: the first is that he was born as a glimpse at the mind of the fundamental intellectual activity, the second is that it was a fusion of conscious life with the unconscious life, that is a mechanism similar to what happens in dreams.
naturl this does not exclude that some people really existed, in some cases, we have the assurance that their business is only in the narrative of the myths have been fictionalized, and then be a source of inspiration for the 'art, both in the literature in painting and music.
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