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Week 4 Lab

I decided to watch the Crash Course videos on Mythology for this week's StoryLab. I really like how the first video starts by defining myths as story rather than truth, even though they may also be true. I also like thinking about what makes a story significant and have lasting power, whether it be about the story's moral lesson or the story's explanatory power.

It's interesting to know that the correlation between myths and lying began all the way back with Plato, for some reason I figured that interpretation would've happened later. I was also surprised that mythology lived in practice wasn't studied until anthropology gained prominence in the 20th century.

The monomyth was also really helpful to dissect. Seeing how most hero myths have so much structural similarity will help organize my own thoughts when I'm writing.
(Crash course logo. Source.)
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