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Post #212648

Author
starkiller
Parent topic
Modern Myths?
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Date created
23-May-2006, 5:10 PM
Using the conventional definition of myth (a story used to explain something that was not completely understood), I don't believe there are any of those now.

However, in the broader sense of the word, I have to agree that such figures as Arthur and Robin Hood, perhaps even the Pied Piper of Hamlin would fit.

I don't think you can consider TV or movies to be myth. Will people 500 years from now remember the tales of Jack Bauer?? Doubtful. But a story like Robin Hood has survived for a very long time (according to Wikipedia the first stories were compiled in the 16th and 17th centuries from ballads of earlier times).