Transcript Classical Mythology

Classical Mythology
Theories of Myth
EXTERNALIST: The mythopoeic mind
Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-1793).
Portrait by Karl Franz Jacob
Heinrich Schumann, 1791.
Halberstadt, Das Gleimhaus.
Karl Otfried Müller (17971840). Bust by Alexander
Tondeur, 1880. University of
Göttingen.
EXTERNALIST: aetiology, Euhemerism, allegory
Andrew Lang (1844-1912).
Friedrich Max Müller (18231900). Portrait by George
Frederic Watts, 1894–1895.
National Portrait Gallery,
London.
EXTERNALIST: ritual
Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941).
Photograph of 1933.
Joseph M W Turner (1775-1851). The Golden Bough, 1834.
Tate Gallery, London.
EXTERNALIST: ritual
Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928). Portrait by Augustus John,
1909. Cambridge, Newnham College.
EXTERNALIST: charter
myths / functionalism
Bronsilaw Malinowski (1884-1942) with
natives, Trobriand Islands, 1918.
INTERNALIST: psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud (18561939). Bookplate, logo
of the Internationaler
Psychoanalytischer
Verlag, 1922, cartoon
from the New York
Review of Books
INTERNALIST: psychoanalysis
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961).
Mircea Eliade (1907-1986).
Joseph Campbell (1904-1987).
INTERNALIST: structuralsim
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009).
Jean-Paul Vernant (1914-2007).
Walter Burkert (1931-).
ALLEGORY
Theseus and the Minotaur (detail). Master of the Campana Cassone,
early XVI. Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais.
COMPARATIVE MYTHOLOGY
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von
Schlegel (1772-1829). Portrait
by Franz Gareis, 1801.
Friedrich Max Müller (18231900). Portrait by George
Frederic Watts, 1894–1895.
National Portrait Gallery,
London.
NARRATOLOGY
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (1895-1970).
Photograph of 1928.
Propp’s 31 Narrative Functions.
MUTTERRECHT
Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994).
Photograph of 1993.
Johann Jakob Bachofen
(1815 – 1887).
FEMINIST/QUEER STUDIES
NEW AGE SPIRITUALITY
Artemis of Ephesus. I CE copy of the cult
statue. Ephesus Archaeological Museum,
Selçuk.
Betsy Damon (1940-). The 7,000 Year Old
Woman. New York City, 1977. Photograph by Su
Friedrich.
A myth is a socially powerful traditional story.
Buxton, Greek Mythology
A myth is a fictitious story that illustrates the truth.
Theon, Progymnasmata
A definition makes a good servant but a bad master.
Buxton, Imaginary Greece