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GREEK MYTHOLOGY
A Concise Guide to Ancient Gods, Heroes, Beliefs and Myths
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>> Click Here << >> To Get Your FREE Audiobook << Table of Contents Introduction What Is A Myth? The Sources Of Greek Mythology The Creation Of The Universe And The Gods What Of Man? What Of Woman? The Greek Pantheon The Trojan War The Influence Of Greek Drama Two Greek Mortal Heroes In Mythological Tales Conclusion Your Free eBooks! Introduction “Man: a being in search of meaning.” —Plato; a philosopher c428-348BCE If you look back on the events of your day today, I am prepared to guess that you referenced Greek mythology at least twice, if not three times. Perhaps you are laughing, but think back: did you look at your horoscope under your sign of the Zodiac? Did you work like a Spartan to catch up on some work? Was your PC at work attacked by a Trojan virus? Did you order something via Amazon.com? Did you buy some household shopping at lunch time and pick up a bottle of Ajax? Perhaps you found a second-hand copy of “The Tanglewood Tales” by Nigel Hawthorne for your niece’s birthday while you were out booking tickets to go to “Orpheus in the Underworld” on Saturday. Afterwards, you might have wondered what it would be like to be “as rich as Croesus”! Television news channels today are discussing whether China and the United States are going to fall into the Thucydides’ Trap - Thucydides being a famous Greek military leader who wrote about “the likelihood of conflict between a rising power and a currently dominant one.” All the many ancient civilizations that have come before us have left traces of the mythologies that guided them - but none more so than the Greeks. In common with other mythologies, early Greek mythology was handed down through the oral tradition of travelling bards from Minoa, Mycenae and Mesopotamia, re-telling tales that go back as far as 2700 BCE, like the epic of Gilgamesh, the semi-mythic King of Uruk. The Greeks also have one of the most complicated mythological systems, rife with some anomalies as well. While it’s not perhaps the oldest, running from approximately 2000 BCE till the end of the Hellenistic era around c146 BCE, it is well-documented nevertheless. We know a great deal about it mostly through ancient pottery of all things; the ancient Egyptians may ha ............ 书籍插图：

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