By Claude Lévi-Strauss, Barbara Ward, Frank H. Underhill, George Grant, Willy Brandt
A broadcasting fixture for greater than forty five years and Canada’s preeminent public lecture sequence, the CBC's Massey Lectures function provocative talks on urgent themes via significant modern thinkers. the various series’ most interesting lectures were misplaced for a few years, unavailable to the general public in any shape — beforehand. More misplaced Massey Lectures offers lately rediscovered talks: Nobel Prize-winner Willy Brandt discusses the harmful inequities among constructing and industrialized international locations whereas Barbara Ward explains the foundation and drawback of underdeveloped nations and Frank Underhill speaks at the deficiencies of the Canadian structure. George Grant's speak at the worsening challenge of the West via an exam of Friedrich Nietzsche is joined through Claude Levi-Strauss at the nature of delusion and its position in human historical past. not just of substantial old value, those lectures stay highly appropriate within the twenty first century. additionally incorporated is an creation through veteran CBC manufacturer Bernie Lucht.
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30. Barthe (1957: ‘Le Mythe, aujourd’hui’ (‘Myth today’)). 31. Lévi-Strauss and Eribon (1998: 107). 32. Frye (1957, 1963). 33. Cf. Durand (1992: 35–7). 34. For example, Jung and Kerényi (1951). 35. See Kerényi (1976a, 1976b). 36. See the ingenious solution of Sauzeau (2010). 37. Dowden (forthcoming). ‘Fact and fiction in the New Mythology: 100 BC–AD 100’, in J. R. Morgan, I. Repath (eds), ‘Where the Truth Lies’: Lies and Metafiction in Ancient Literature, Groningen. 38. See Borg (2004), in which several essays are of interest to the student of mythology.
156); an instance of the principle, which has applied throughout human history, that colonization can also happen in reverse. We might draw an alternative metaphor from myth itself: the story in which Zeus’ first wife Metis – Cunning Intelligence personified – is pregnant with the wise goddess Athene, and Zeus is warned that his next offspring will be a son destined to overthrow his father. Zeus pre-empts this by swallowing Metis. Metis becomes the Intelligence of Zeus, and Zeus himself gives birth to Athene (Hesiod, Theogony 886–900; F 343 MW, F 294 Most).
Yet even they will acknowledge that some genuine movements of Greek peoples are reflected in the mythology: the colonization of Rhodes by peoples of the Argolid may be reflected in the mythology (Dowden 1989: 150) and Troy may reflect the takeover of the Asia Minor seaboard by the colonizing Greeks (Dowden 1992: 68). But Troy is the key case where we need to set aside naive views, stemming from Schliemann, which dignify material finds through association with mythic culture as though it were simply history.
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