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"Interview An Interview with Dr. Sarah Catherine Ilkhani on Greek Mythology, English Literature, and SBU Students By Mehrdad Yousefpoori-Naeim به تصویر صفحه مراجعه شود)) THRESHOLD: I thank you very much for accepting our invitation to this interview.
Literary history is a difficult subject to teach because, to start with, many people don’t like history and also because it’s basically a long list of names and titles that you’ve got to cover in a relatively short period of time.
THRESHOLD: One question that might strike many students is, "Why is classical mythology so important in English literature?" Well, we know English literature is replete with mythological allusions, the knowledge of which greatly helps us appreciate the literary piece at hand.
Dr. Ilkhani: Well, other than mythology’s inherent interest and the things it can teach you about life, you’ve basically answered the question – allusions.
Classical mythology pervades English, and other Western, literatures, to such an extent that you need know it in order to understand the works.
It doesn’t address the question of why classical culture was largely forgotten after the Fall of Rome and how it answered the needs of Renaissance and Enlightenment Europe better than their own indigenous cultures and mythologies.
You’re studying a literature with a very different cultural tradition from your own and so you don’t know a lot of things that British or American English Literature students would know simply because they were brought up in that tradition."