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M Y T H O L O G YAs we continue to discover, the most critical Greeks, such as the philosopher Plato in the 5th–4th century BCE, knew that myths contained a significant element of fabrication. Adkins et. al. (2021) stated that , However the myths were regarded as accurate facts in Greek popular piety. Greek mythology has had a significant impact on Western civilization's arts and literature, which inherited much of Greek culture.
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Structuralism Mythology Syllabus The structuralists argue that myth, with its system of oppositions, is likewise a sort of language. An attempt is made to mediate between these oppositions by smoothing them out and bringing about a reconciliation through the construction of myths (if only imaginary). On the other hand "Myth is language, acting on an extremely high level where meaning succeeds practically at 'lifting off' from the linguistic ground on which it continues rolling," according to Claude Lévi-Strauss, a French anthropologist, in his Structuralist Theory of Mythology. The language utilized in these stories is usually the people's native tongue. Lévi-Strauss divides his thesis into three sections. The combination of these pieces, rather than the precise core aspects of the narrative, is where meaning is found. Although myth and language belong to the same category, myth uses language differently. The roles of language in myth are more complicated than in any other verbal representation. He concludes from these arguments that myth may be broken down into constituent units, which are distinct from the elements of language. Finally, unlike language's elements, myth's constituents, which he refers to as "mythemes," function as "bundles of relations."