Cities of Myth: Crash Course World Mythology #35
This week on Crash Course Mythology, we're getting urban. Mike Rugnetta is the man with the orange umbrella who's about to give you a free tour of mythical ...
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Hey there, I’m Mike Rugnetta, this is Crash Course Mythology, and today we’re gonna put on our mythical coats, grab our mythical hats, hop on a mythical mode of public transportation and get ourselves into the hustle and bustle of mythical cities. Some of these cities are real, some are fictional, and some are even metaphorical. But all of them are metropolitain! Come on, Thoth! The Bifrost Bus only runs once an hour! [Intro] City myths can be tricky. They’re not like other mythical places we’ve looked at-- like gardens, caves, or mountains--because they don’t belong to the natural world. They’re man made, or sometimes god made. And this means that the stories we tell about them can be a little different. A lot of the stories we have about cities are closer to tall tales, whi...
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Hey there, I’m Mike Rugnetta, this is Crash Course Mythology, and today we’re gonna put on our mythical coats, grab our mythical hats, hop on a mythical mode of public transportation and get ourselves into the hustle and bustle of mythical cities. Some of these cities are real, some are fictional, and some are even metaphorical. But all of them are metropolitain! Come on, Thoth! The Bifrost Bus only runs once an hour! [Intro] City myths can be tricky. They’re not like other mythical places we’ve looked at-- like gardens, caves, or mountains--because they don’t belong to the natural world. They’re man made, or sometimes god made. And this means that the stories we tell about them can be a little different. A lot of the stories we have about cities are closer to tall tales, whi...
