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Legend, Myth and History
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Our Maverick English Teacher considers the relationship between myth and history, and comes up with 16 books that present core stories and 16 books that seriously examine the historical underpinnings of those stories. Lest anyone be offended, he defines myth as those stories that tell us who we are, and that, although perhaps based on something factual, have grown beyond mere fact into great metaphors. Some of these stories are clearly held to be metaphorical, while others, rightly or wrongly, are believed to be literal truth.
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