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⌈ Secret Post #3444 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

No, disagreed.

Fantasy is not a modern construction, it has direct roots in folklore, which has direct roots in mythology. Fantasy is not a twentieth-century invention, fantasies sagas have existed as long as literature itself and frequently evoke mythology or mythological tropes. I don't think one could argue that something like Beowulf isn't a medieval-period fantasy.

And I would argue that most Graeco-Roman mythology - as the most popular and well-written mythology, both in the historical time period and throughout history up until today - is essentially fantasy and even was to the Greeks and Romans. Not that they didn't believe in gods (though not everyone literally believed in them, as evident by philosophical work of the time) but the chance that these stories were taken as literal histories is very unlikely. They were all essentially sagas, epic stories. The myths we know today that have survived history likely had the exact same function that any epic story today does.

[tabaqui]

Agree with you totally.

[a_potato]

Well-stated, anon.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I agree with this, though with the added point that they were sagas that often had morality points to them. A lot of fairy tales were just the same - a fanciful story with a moral point to it.

Modern fantasy still does that, even in something like GOT, but I think GOT's moral point is "People are shitty".