Professionals

 I spent today contacting my professionals for this project. Both seemed happy to talk with me, but we had troubles with my main historian Dr Scully because he wanted to call and I couldn't call to the US. 

Dr Armand D'Angour was available to talk and we had a good conversation about his views on my topic myth vs history. 

His implications were that myth is a fictional narrative strongly based in lessons of psychology and history is based on 'evidence and sources.'

He believes that the proof of burning (charred debris/ bronze arrowheads) was proof of what was written in the Iliad, but not the same thing. He also said there was no proof of the rest of the tale such as the trojan horse which he wrote about. He also agrees that the proof leads to proof of there being multiple wars and not one.

He confirmed that Mythology was a way of explaining tough questions that weren't answered for everyone in Greece when there wasn't one true religion.

I asked if I could quote some things he said and I can use/ not use his name if he wanted to. Even though he said no problem, I think I should still make a contract so he knows where the film would be going if he wanted his name in that too.

During today; talking to the professionals, my dad gave his own opinion on myth vs history. He said that in his opinion, myth should be classed as history, as the stories themselves are based on a lifestyle that the author has seen or lived, whether emotionally or in person. He also said that often, the bible has been taken as history, especially with historical dates being written BC (before Christ) and AD (after Christ) even though it's as easy to prove some mythological stories as some religious ones.