The experience of the ancient audience of mythopoiia: application of the research in Arkadian myths
[Διαβάστε αυτήν την ανάρτηση στα Ελληνικά ] This post is based on the publications of Professor Sarah Iles Johnston: Narrating Myths: Story & Belief in Ancient Greece and The Greek Mythic Story World . Today, these articles are chapters of her book called The Story of Myth (2018). Her theory has inspired me to summarise her research, and support it further with myth examples from Ancient Arkadia. A phenomenon we observe when reading the ancient Greek myths is the existence of many variations regarding their plot and their protagonists. Sometimes the difference is located on a small portion of their total plot, which automatically triggers our mind to start the process of comparison. Other times we observe one character in many and contradicted narrations, and so our common logic forces us to determine the correct myth version. Who, indeed, is ...