Greek Myth

A Greek myth is a set of multiforms or variants of the same story, which exist either as written texts, prose or verse,

or in oral form, or in both written and oral form, or in vase painting or plastic art as well or independently. The

story concerns the divine or the supernatural or the heroic or animals or paradigmatic humans living in a time undefinable

by human chronology. Each retelling or application produces a new variant, which stands in some degree of antagonistic

relation to other variants or other myths and thus takes its place in a system constituted by the proliferation of such

relations. This definition can incorporate the now current definition of myth as "traditional tale", provided that the

difficult word "traditional" means "without an identifiable author". A variant can thus be more precisely defined as

the encounter of traditional tale and unique, individual, motivated retelling or artistic reuse of that tale.