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See all- Cafe Philo: what is the good of myths?Albany Public Library , Albany
[IMAGE: La Vérité sortant du puits armée de son martinet pour châtier l'humanité
A mythical representation of truth:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Coming_Out_of_Her_Well][NB - back at the library this time!]
QUESTIONS
Do myths offer truth? What sort of truth(s)?
Do myths and legends reveal historical truths?
Do myths (and other fictions)
- contain knowledge?
- truths about human characteristics, behaviours, relations?
- evoke true emotions & feelings?Do myths (& fables and tales eg Aesop’s) reveal moral truths?
THOUGHT STARTERS
https://aeon.co/essays/the-stories-of-oral-societies-arent-myths-theyre-records
“Legends are there to tell us what history has forgotten"
– Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees, 2022https://www.masterclass.com/classes/neil-gaiman-teaches-the-art-of-storytelling/chapters/truth-in-fiction
(only the ‘preview’ is available, the rest is behind a paywall unfortunately)https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fiction/#TrutThroFict (especially paragraph 4 onwards)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fiction/#ParaFict
https://aeon.co/essays/before-you-define-fiction-check-your-metaphysical-assumptions
