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WHY ARE THE GREEK GODS IMPORTANT?
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• Why does almost every movie about ancient
Greece have to do with mythology?
Where did the gods come from?
• No one person invented
Greek mythology.
• The earliest written
sources of Greek
mythology date to just
after the Dark Age,
about 800 BCE.
• Archaeological evidence
from Mycenae and
Crete suggest an even
earlier origin.
What are our best sources of Greek
Mythology?
• Poems by Homer (Iliad, Odyssey) and Hesiod
(Theogeny, Works and Days) give the fullest
account of Greek mythology.
• Later writers would add and adapt to the
earlier poems, creating our modern
mythology.
Why were the gods important?