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  GREEK MYTHOLOGY
 
Greek Mythology

We've put together a comprehensive guide to greek mythology. This guide is by no means complete but it's a starting point for information on ancient greek gods, ancient myths, heroes and demigods and other interesting mythological stories.

In the modern language, the word "myth" and "mythology" is synonymous with a fiction or a lie. But in the ancient Greek language, a "myth" (mythos - μύθος) meant simply a "traditional tale", and these tales, usually of gods and heroes, were held to be true stories about the ancient past.

Reading these myths you will come to realize that every myth varies in the telling. The oral transmission of myths often gave rise to differing - or even conflicting - versions of the same myth.

We have to understand that greek myths have been around for centuries and were only written down around 800 BCE. To make matters worse, all greek mythology came to us written in ancient greek (of course!) so translating to English or any other language was not an easy task.

No matter what the variations are of each story the bottom line is that the ancient Greeks had a brilliant imagination and created one of the richest and most complete set of characters: gods, demigods and heroes and passed them on to us to appreciate their brilliance millennia later.





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