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GREEK MYTHOLOGYPrinciplesThe belief system was based on the worship of the Greek Gods by
TeachingsGreek mythology consists, in part, of a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, and other mythological creatures. These accounts were initially fashioned and disseminated in an oral-poetic tradition; thus, it was not a revealed religion, in that it was not a truth handed down from the divine to the mortal. Ancient TextsThe oldest known literary sources which marks the beginning of history as a written account, Homer's epic poems Iliad and Odyssey, focus on events surrounding the Trojan War. Two poems by Homer's near contemporary Hesiod, the Theogony and the Works and Days, contain accounts of the genesis of the world, the succession of divine rulers, the succession of human ages, the origin of human woes, and the origin of sacrificial practices. Furthermore, myths are also preserved in the Homeric hymns, in fragments of epic poems of the Epic Cycle. | |||||||||
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