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How satisfactory is it to see "myth" as a precursor to "history"?
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How satisfactory is it to see "myth" as a precursor to "history"? To be able to answer the above, I will first need to set myth apart from history, what is the difference between the two? In order to be able to answer how myth is a precursor to history, if in fact it is at all. The meaning of "Myth" from the Greek "Mythos" is explained as being "traditionally a ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the world view of a person, as by explains aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology , custom or ideas of a society"1. It serves many more purposes than this, and its meaning has changed through time, as peoples attitudes to it have. Myth is now generally applied to fiction, yet in ancient Greece it was used to define many aspects of there...
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