4:19 / Character Lessons from Myths / Discovering Characters

We’ve reached the last major section of Discovering Characters, which is Décor or Special Touches for Characters and the Sliding Scales.

We begin with Lessons from Myths, primarily Greek mythology, that huge melting pot of myths.

Here in modern times we can barely see the distinctions in cultures that compose the myths. Time has blurred those distinctions for us, and now we look back and think one culture when it is many. The myth of Medea alone offers the collision of four different cultures.

This episode takes an extended look at something I developed after years of teaching mythology. It combines the traits of the Epic Hero with archetypes into what I called the Greek Heroic Pattern. We’ll look at the best example of the GHP from classical antiquity then offer 7 others that more from ancient times to our modern ones.

The addition of the Greek Heroic Pattern and 7 protagonists through time will have this episode running longer than usual (TOTAL RUN TIME = 34:39)

TIMINGS

• 0:39 Introduction
• 1:52 Special Touches for Characters / Lessons from Myths
• 4:47 Sacrifices that Protagonists have to make
• 6:10 Deities & Fighting against Deities
• 7:53 Heroes of Greek Myth
• 11:05 Intro to the Greek Heroic Pattern ~ 9 areas
• 15:13 Perseus in the GHP (Hollywood ruins a good protagonist)
• 19:52 7 Protagonists = Orpheus, Psyche, Arthur, “Invictus” persona, Darcy, Aragorn, and Iron Man
• 32:50 Closing

 

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