Between Myth And History Quotes

“...it is the business of myth to condense and contain the most fundamental sources of cultural tension -- those areas in which the self and the world are in greatest friction -- and to validate current ideologies by dramatizing them and retrojecting their contours into the past”
― R.M. Liuzza, Beowulf

“...it is the business of myth to condense and contain the most fundamental sources of cultural tension -- those areas in which the self and the world are in greatest friction -- and to validate current ideologies by dramatizing them and retrojecting their contours into the past.”
― R.M. Liuzza, Beowulf