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>been reading Greek mythology
>love the fantastical and quasi-religious nature of it
>find myself being drawn back into genre fiction of that particular flavor
Did I just ascend right on past philosocuckery?

>> No.15859469

>>15859434
Plato’s invented myth as myth by introducing the logos

>> No.15859655

>>15859434
>mythology
>quasi-religious nature
wut

>> No.15859670

>>15859655
Names change meaning. The mythology of the Bible has little to do with Christianity, for example.

>> No.15859673

>>15859434
Based ngl

>> No.15859678

>find myself being drawn back into genre fiction of that particular flavor
That's where you went wrong. You should have stayed at the preceding step, that's where you gain artistic superpowers from the muses.

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>>15859678
OP here, to be fair I haven't actually partaken in any of said genre lit yet, I've just been writing it

>> No.15860981

>>15859434
>quasi-religious nature of it
It has an outright religious nature, you retard.

>> No.15861047

>>15859434
Reading the Iliad has made me want to read some Robert E. Howard again

>> No.15861233

>>15860981
The Greeks didn't actually believe ALL of that bullshit, dude

>> No.15861299

>>15861233
>he thinks believing in stories or not = religious
you fucking retard it's literally dripping in their deeply religious culture and worldview

>> No.15861349

>>15861233
If they didn't believe it they never could have told the stories, held the festivals, and created the works of art.

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>>15859434
that's a detailed statue.....