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The mythology of the Greeks
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The first written record of Greece – the Iliad
The tales of Greek mythology
To throw light upon what early Greeks were like
To express the idea of sublime
The world of Greek mythology
- not a place of terror for the human spirit
- a world full of beauty
The contents of mythology
 Largely made of stories about gods and goddesses
 For explanation of something in nature
 For entertainment
 For explaining men’s relationship with gods – religion
The Greek miracle
 The new birth of the world with the awakening of Greece
 A humanized world
 The Greeks made their gods in their own image.
 Men freed from the paralyzing fear of an omnipotent Unknown
The Greek and Roman writers of mythology
 Latin poet – Ovid
 Wrote stories during the reign of Augustus
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Homer
Around 1000 BC – before Christ
Wrote Iliad and Odyssey
Hesiod
Around 8th and 9th century BC
Wrote works about Gods
The first writer in Greece who wondered about the world, the gods and the
mankind
Pindar (the end of 6th BC)
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The greatest lyric poet of Greece
Wrote odes in honor of the victors in the games of national festivals
Three tragic poets
Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides
The great writer of comedy – Aristophanes
Virgil (Roman writer)