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The summer before 5th grade, I happily enrolled in a Greek mythology summer school class. We read and studied all the famous stories, from 'King Midas and the Golden Touch', to Daedalus and Icarus. It was super-nerdy fun. I liked how the stories were fantastical, but had deeper meaning.
Myths, legends, fables and folktales are types of stories originally passed by word-of-mouth, but are now found in writing. They vary in their subject matter, from explaining the natural world and delivering life lessons, to exaggerated events and people grounded in history. What they have in common, though, is their durability as both forms of entertainment and as teaching tools.
