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that reminds me alot of the prose of the Sagas, which shouldn’t be surprising. Every chapter starts with a telling of the ancestry of the persons involved and the “action scenes” are similarly clipped.
Exactly, also many contemporary people would have “National Mythos” so-to-speak about some of these characters, as they are stand-ins for the different Greek peoples in as much as they represent themselves as characters.
Still doesn’t help us, post-modern sickos, who have become accustomed to more… visceral depictions of violence and generally don’t have such a connection to our characters of myth so much.
