The interpretation and critique of myth constitutes one of the perennial concerns of Western culture. From the heritage of fifth-century Greece we have the distinction between mythos and logos and from the biblical tradition, the distinction between mythos and history. It thus appears that dominant rational modes of interpretation of human reality in the Western tradition have always been defined in tension, if not in opposition, to the reality portrayed by myth.
The interpretation and critique of myth constitutes one of the perennial concerns of Western culture. From the heritage of fifth-century Greece we have the distinction between mythos and logos and from the biblical tradition, the distinction between mythos and history. It thus appears that dominant rational modes of interpretation of human reality in the Western tradition have always been defined in tension, if not in opposition, to the reality portrayed by myth.
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