The obvious linguistic dimension of myth is not exempt from philosophical problems. The first approximation to the relation between language and myth would make us think that the latter is a species of the former, for there are communicative forms, like a political constitution, or a mathematical reasoning , that, in principle, do not create scenarios with categories of traditional myths . However, if we examine a political constitution in more detail, we can see scenarios that in a direct or derived manner make reference to mythological settings. Thus, for instance, in the Constitution of Athens , [1] underlying the comments of Aristotle concerning the administrative proceedings of democracy itself and the laws, we find concepts such as those of Diké , justice , or Eunomía , order, that appear in Hesiod ’s poem as the consorts of Zeus , [2] addressing to a specific mythological world. In fact, the poems of Solon that appear in the Aristotelian ...
On the symbolic constructions of human identity.