Atlantyda jako mit nie-grecki, czyli o mitach w kulturze popularnej

• Authors: Czarcińska, Katarzyna

Title variants

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Is Atlantis still a Greek myth − mythology in popular culture

Abstracts

EN

The article focuses on the issue of reception of ancient myths in popular culture. As popular culture is known for vast use of different ancient myths in many productions, the question may be raised, if they can be still named as ‘ancient’. With the example of the drowned peninsula of Orr in Guild Wars video games, which is compared with the Atlantis isle of Plato, the article proves that despite structural similarity of the story, these two are different myths. The myth of Atlantis is shaped by the Greek culture, which is oriented on the past, with strong conviction that the human race is heading towards destruction. The story of Orr reflects immersion in present time and the need to bury the past once and forever. Therefore, popular culture creates its own mythology, which is named as the mythology of popular culture.

Keywords

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mythology; popular culture; video games

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Collectanea Philologica
• Year: 2015
• Volume: Numer specjalny

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Czarcińska, Katarzyna

other

Uniwersytet Warszawski

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Katarzyna Czarcińska − the University of Warsaw, the Institute of Classical Studies. Born 1990, she finished Master studies in 2014 at the University of War- saw, the Institute of Classical Studies. Her Master’s thesis was: Epic poem genre distinctives present in Baldur’s Gate – the role playing video game. Currently a Ph.D. candidate at the same Institute. Her research interests relate to video ga- mes, popular culture and reception of antiquity in popular culture

Identifiers

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/11089/18384

DOI

10.18778/1733-0319.S15.01