#queue chulainn

sometimes i think we confuse the matter of how we define a story by allowing form and subject to be collapsed together but like. aeschylus's plays might be ABOUT a myth but they are in and of themselves ancient greek tragedies and referring to them as such is a correct description of their literary form without passing any judgment on their content. and so when i say a story is a medieval text, i'm describing the literary form of the material that we, as readers, are engaging with, rather than the content of it. whether or not the content is about a myth is rather a separate issue, i think. because aeschylus's tragedies are about myths but so are euripides's tragedies and they can be the same myths but they are separate tragedies. and so when we have a medieval text and an early modern text about the same story, they are texts in the same way those plays are plays, and that has no bearing on their being myths or not.