Andrew
1314 posts
Mar 31, 2011
3:50 AM
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I'm not going to go into any detail on this, as I haven't made any serious study.
Crossroads mythology goes back at least as far as the Ancient Greeks. Crossroads are a bog-standard metaphor for a choice we have to make between right and wrong. Before Satan, Hekate stood at the crossroads. But in some stories a man at a crossroads is approached by two women, Virtue and Vice.
IMO (but I'm not going to justify it, because I haven't made a serious study, as I've said), it's worth linking it to the mythology of the poet acquiring his vocation, which we can read first in Hesiod's Theogony (700 BC), and which has been stolen by people as diverse as Horace and Gavino Ledda in the Taviani brothers' Padre Padrone.
I'd love to read Harry Hyatt, but his books are too expensive.
Last Edited by on Mar 31, 2011 4:16 AM
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