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The Romulus And Remus Myth As A Source Of Insight Into Greek And Roman Values, Dimitri Adamidis
The Romulus And Remus Myth As A Source Of Insight Into Greek And Roman Values, Dimitri Adamidis
Senior Theses and Projects
The Romulus and Remus myth is a useful source of insight into Greek and Roman values, particularly in the Augustan Age. Livy, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, and Diodorus Siculus, are three authors that give an account of the myth with varying extents of similarities and differences. Livy was nervous about Roman identity at the time he was writing in the Augustan Age, Dionysius tried to show how the Greeks and Romans are similar in their origins and from a cultural standpoint, and Diodorus shows how there is not one single authoritative version of a myth. The Romulus and Remus myth is …
The Philosophy Of Mythology, Erwin F. Cook
The Philosophy Of Mythology, Erwin F. Cook
Classical Studies Faculty Research
The early German romantic philosophy of myth can help elucidate the nature of romanticism itself, which notoriously resists descriptive or theoretical definition. To be sure, myth is an equally problematic term, whose precise meaning varies among romantic philosophers, though its role in the romantic project remains usefully consistent: myth is offered as a solution to the crisis of modern alienation, or, more radically, to the crisis of the subject object dichotomy. The sources of this alienation are likewise varied but broadly coherent. I will mention those relevant to the task at hand.
Amateur Mythographies: Fan Fiction And The Myth Of Myh, Ika Willis
Amateur Mythographies: Fan Fiction And The Myth Of Myh, Ika Willis
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
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