But that's not comic books being the new mythology, that's commercial fiction being more important nowadays than mythology Mythology, qua mythology, is much less of a thing in modern society I think the distinction does matter
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So our discussion of this gets confused Like, no, I don't think Sophocles was doing something fundamentally different when he wrote a play as when someone writes a Batman screenplay
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The difference is the Sophocles' play was understood as being about a myth while Batman is about pure fiction
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Its worth pointing out that we probably are missing pretty big chuncks of even relativly well known mythology sutch as that of antique greek just because so mutch diddent get written down/diddent get preserved and passed down
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