A little knowledge about Greek mythology, what is known about Greek mythology

The epistemic value of Greek mythology:

1. Greek mythology is the result of the original consciousness activities of the ancient Greeks, which artistically summarizes the ancient Greeks' understanding of nature and society, expresses their righteous indignation at social injustice, concentrates their experience and ideals, and is full of optimism;

2. In terms of art, the biggest feature is the personification of Shenxiaozhou, which has a naïve and beautiful fantasy and a new and simple style of clever hail in the description of later writers;

3. Greek mythology is the soil of ancient Greek literature, and subsequent poems and tragedies are all based on myths and heroic legends, which have an important influence and inspiration for future generations of writers.

1. Prometheus sends tinder.

It tells the story of Prometheus, a great friend of mankind, who gave fire to mankind in order to help mankind live a warm and happy life, and did not hesitate to bear the cruel punishment of Zeus, the father of the gods.

2. Hades brought plague to the world.

The king of the underworld in ancient Greek mythology, and the god of plague, he once infected the city-state of Thebais with a deadly plague, which did not stop until two young girls, Metrioc and Menipe, volunteered to sacrifice.

3. Poseidon creates horses.

Poseidon, one of the twelve main gods of Olympus, the god of the sea and the shaker of the earth, the second brother of Zeus. Horses and cows were his sacred relics, and he was very fond of horses and created them. Therefore, after he ruled the seas, he turned several horses into fish-horse hybrids with tail fins.

In this way, they also pull carts for him in the water.

4. The Guardian History of Athena.

The legend that Athena became the patron saint of Athens is associated with the match between the goddess and Poseidon. When Athens was first built by a Phoenician, Poseidon competed with Athena for the glory of the name, and the person who could provide humanity with the most useful things would become the patron saint of the city. Poseidon conjured a war horse by striking the ground with his trident.

Athena, on the other hand, conjured up an olive tree – a symbol of peace and prosperity. Because the war horse was believed to represent war and sorrow, Athens was named after the goddess. The goddess soon brought the city under her protection.

On the Acropolis of Athens, there are still remnants of one of the most famous buildings in ancient Greece, the Parthenon, where the goddess Athena was worshipped.

5. Apollo vs. Monty Python.

Young Apollo ran through the blue sky with a harp in his hand and a silver bow on his shoulder, and golden arrows clanged in his quiver. He ran to the cave where the python Pitong lived, and sought revenge for his mother, Leto. For Leto was pursued by Pitong and suffered a great deal of suffering.

Apollo soon found the cave where Pitong lived. The terrible Pitong crawled out of the cavern, its huge scale-covered body circling round and round between the rocks, its weight weighing down the rocks and the mountains. Pitong destroyed everything around it.

The goddess and all the creatures fled for fear of it.

Pitong opened his bloody mouth, ready to swallow Apollo. The strings on Apollo's silver bow hummed, and his golden arrows rained down on Pitong. Pitong lost his breath and lay on the ground.

Apollo sang the battle song of victory, buried Pitong, and built the temple of Delphi and the priesthood there, prophesied the will of Zeus.

Greek mythology is all the myths about the gods, heroes, nature and cosmic history of the ancient Greeks, and later generations have compiled them into the current ancient Greek mythological stories, which are divided into two parts: the stories of the gods and the legends of heroes.

Ancient Chinese mythology arose in the primitive era when productivity and people's cognitive ability were very low, when human consciousness began to develop, but the thinking ability was extremely simple, primitive people could not scientifically understand and explain the natural world and natural phenomena and human beings themselves, they could only rely on their own narrow life experience to imagine and fantasize, so they believed that the natural world also has will, character, and feelings like human beings, and that the sun, moon, wind, rain, thunder, and lightning are all governed by gods. In this way, the idea of a natural god was formed in the minds of primitive man. If one wants to explain the origin of all things in the universe, one imagines a great pioneer goddess, Nuwa, who is not only the creator of the world, but also the ancestor of all human beings.

If people want to explain the phenomenon of the sun and the moon traveling westward and the rivers going east, they fantasize about the stories of "the co-workers cannot touch the mountains", "the pillars of heaven are broken, and the earth is destroyed", "the sky is tilted to the northwest", and "the earth is not satisfied with the southeast", so as to explain the phenomenon of the sun and the moon traveling westward and the rivers going east. From these myths, we can see the primitive man's naïve understanding and vain imagination of the world around him and himself, and of course, it can also be understood that this is precisely some of the mysteries of the world around him and themselves. It goes without saying that the powers of these gods and all kinds of gods created by primitive man are nothing but childish fantasies in people's minds caused by various natural forces that have not yet been recognized, and they are the products of primitive man's visualization and personification of various natural forces through fantasy.