What do we learn about Greek Culture based on greek myths?
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 at
8:26 pm
I really need help with this. I need to write a report pretending i found a tablet and write about what we learned about the history abd culture of the ancient civilization of the Greeks based on my findings.
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the myth of the minotaur symbolized crete’s domination of the greek world( most city states paid tribute to this city ) and the head of the minotaur symbolized the very beastlike nature in humans as the human part of him the sybol os reason and knowledge, theseus deafting him with a ball of twine sybolized man’s conquering its beast like side with reason. odyssseus was a all human man who was just trying to get home, representing the greeks will of never giving up, any myth where humans offended the gods were told to instill fear in thier culture. zeus always having children with his lovers symbolized the greek males wish to always be fertile and viral( children often died young as did women die young) the greek heroes had to do great things to get a sotry just like in greek culture to make a name for yourself u had to do great things,
the male dominated society was often related back to thier myths as most of the goddesses played second to thier male gods, and athena turnign the beautiful medusa into a gorgan monster because posiedan raped her show insight on what the greeks though of rape.. women were property and often iots the woman who was punished .
the sotry of atalanta the greek fastest woman myth.. any man who coudl outrun her became her husband or died.. a man tricked her with a pretty bauble…. showing how woman were thought to be easily tricked… in the odyssey odysseus takes a few lovers on his way home.. even though penelope stayed faithful showing.. that women werent supposed to take lovers but the men it was just fine to have many lovers, the sotry of ganymede , who became zeus’s lover and cupbearor and the sotry of achilles who lover patraclus who was killed by hector made ahcilles refight in the war show that greeks had very little problem with homosexuality, the myth of cassandra a trojan oracle who knew the horse woudl be troys downfall, perseus’s granfather who trapped his mother in a tower after hearing he’d be killed by a grandson, heracles went to a delphic oracle to repent for killign his wife and child, all represent thier great belief in the delphic oracles and oracles in general,demeter and her daughter myth shows how much the greek depended on the weather and how very organized they were about vegetation.. the god hades…often is very mysterious… and fearful.. shows how much the greeks feared death,…