gstafleu

The only thing that myth has to do with history is that, as with Augustus, myth can accrete to historical people. Otherwise myth is a thing of its own. One can of course study the history, both of myth in general and of a particular myth, but that doesn't make myth a form of history. One of the problems with BC&H seems to me that it (sometimes) studies the history of a myth but then looses track of the division between subject and method, and then tends to think that the myth itself has to be history as well.

Gerard Stafleu