Name: 神話の都市：クラッシュコース 世界の神話#35 (Cities of Myth: Crash Course World Mythology #35)
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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

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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.

They're not like other mythical places we've
looked at-- like gardens, caves, or mountains--because

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, which are fun, but

they don't meet our criteria for myth, mostly
because they're, well...a little unserious.

A good example of a tall tale city is El Dorado,
the city of gold said to exist somewhere in

South America, that really tended to be more
of a metaphor for some ultimate prize that

one may search for endlessly… but likely
never actually attain.

And some urban tales are almost too serious--they're
places that really existed, with archaeological

evidence and complicated histories that transcend
the stories we tell about them.

Probably the best known of these is Troy,
whose siege is described in the Iliad.

The archaeological history of Troy is fascinating,
but I'll leave that for Crashcourse Archaeology.

Or maybe we just haven't discovered it yet.

Another significant archeological city that
has a mythical story attached to it is Jericho.

Jericho is one of the oldest cities in human
history, but is probably best known for the

story of its destruction at the hands of Joshua
in the Old Testament.

According to the story, the Lord tells Joshua
to march around the city walls for six days

with seven priests blowing ram's horns as
they carry the ark of the covenant, a chest

On the seventh day, following the Lord's
instructions, Joshua has the army march around

the city seven times and on the seventh circuit
he has the trumpets sound and the army shout

According to the book of Joshua, chapter 6,
verse 20:

“When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted,
and at the sound of the trumpet, when the

men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed;
so everyone charged straight in, and they

It's a great story, but archaeologists are
still arguing over whether or not a walled

And even if it did exist, trumpets probably
didn't bring it down.

Looking at things etiologically, as we sometimes
do, is fun, but it isn't ALWAYS possible

to reconcile myths and historical remains.

This is especially true of living cities,
which have to go about their business while

also existing as a repository of stories about
them.

Let's start with a holy site mentioned in
the Bible, but still standing today, a holy

site common to all three Abrahamic religions:
Jerusalem.

It might be an understatement to say that
Jerusalem has been the subject of many stories.

And the imagery used to describe Jerusalem
changes dramatically depending upon who's

Sometimes the city is beautiful, sometimes
ugly.

Sometimes Jerusalem is personified as a not
especially reputable mythic woman.

This is particularly true during the Babylonian
captivity, a time in the 6th century BCE when

the babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar kept
sacking Jerusalem and sending Jews into exile.

This all led to some complicated feelings
about Jerusalem.

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full
of people!

She is become as a widow, that was great among
the nations!

She that was a princess among the provinces
is become tributary!

But then it gets unpleasant, Jeremiah continues:

Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore
she is become as an unclean thing;

All that honored her despise her, because
they have seen her nakedness:

Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered
not her latter end;

Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she
hath no comforter: (1:8-9)

Yeah I mean, Jeremiah's ambivalence is maybe
understandable.

It's hard to see your sacred city conquered
and destroyed.

Though as for Jeremiah comparing the city
to a lewd and unclean woman, it's not the

only time the Bible deploys the female image
unfairly.

But maybe we can read it as a lamentation
for a city that was supposed to nurture him

but is now taunting him and other Jews by
harboring their conquerors.

The Jews eventually go back and rebuild Jerusalem
so hopefully some of these feelings abate.

In the New Testament, Jerusalem is described
as a woman again, but this woman is more…

In the Book of Revelation, John invents an
idealized Jerusalem, a New Jerusalem intended

And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven from God, prepared

Bride or harlot covered in filth? ... both?

Some cities in the Bible are often classed
as places of sin -- Sodom and Gomorrah being

the most obvious example -- but let's not
forget: cities also provide opportunities

For the early Christians, the ideal city wasn't
Jerusalem, but Rome.

We haven't talked a great deal about Roman
mythology in this series, largely because

it draws heavily on Greek sources, but Romans
did create their own mythological history,

We're going to look at two important myths
surrounding the founding of Rome, involving,

you might be shocked to learn: families and
violence.

One story of the foundation of Rome comes
from Virgil's epic poem, The Aeneid.

This is the story of the Trojan hero, Aeneas,
who escapes the sack of Troy with his aged

father, his young son, and statues of his
household gods.

Eventually he makes his way to Italy where
he and his group of Trojans settle.

There, Aeneas marries Lavinia, the daughter
of the king of Latium.

Anchises, Aeneas's dad, dies during the
journey, but in book six of the Aeneid, Aeneas

goes to the underworld and his father explains
to him the future history of Rome.

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神話の都市：クラッシュコース世界の神話#35 (Cities of Myth: Crash Course World Mythology #35)

eventually

tend

conquer

exist

神話の都市：クラッシュコース 世界の神話#35 (Cities of Myth: Crash Course World Mythology #35)

eventually

tend

conquer

exist

神話の都市：クラッシュコース世界の神話#35 (Cities of Myth: Crash Course World Mythology #35)