Category Archives: Myth
The Use of Myth in History: Ken Dowden
Monsters exist in order to be defeated and, preferably, slain. (134) Ken Dowden’s The Uses of Greek Mythology (Routledge, 1992) provides an excellent guide to the ways in which Greek myth was used to construct Greek historiography that was set in the more remote … Continue reading
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