Myth

The three stories and poem that I am writing about, The Companions, Old Man and Old Women and When I Heard the Learned Astronomer have a lot to do with mythology and science. In some way, shape or form they connect to each other and tie in with each other. Different objects that are classified as “science” that the authors use in these stories are things that we can see and hear everyday.
In the short story Old Man and Old Women, science and mythology intersected in different ways. What the old man and old women were doing in that myth could be defined as science. They were figuring out answers to questions each of them had. For instance, they asked and figured out how people’s bod...