Why are there so many coincidences between ancient Greek mythology and Chinese mythology?

It was translated and written by Zhou Chen.

Greek Mythology and Stories" by Swieb, translated by Zhou Chen, is a book published by Wuhan Publishing House on August 1, 2009. From legend to song, from song to story, from story to drama, and finally to the epic that permeated all of Greece, and also took root in Roman culture.

It opens a window for readers to observe and understand ancient Greek and even European culture. It has experienced rich changes of the times and historical events, and has become the basic material for almost all literary and artistic activities in Greece and even Europe, and has become an important source of literary and artistic recreation.

Ancient Greek mythology refers to all myths about the gods, heroes, nature, and cosmic history of the ancient Greeks, either orally or in writing. Ancient Greek mythology is a spiritual product of primitive clan societies and the earliest literary form in the Western world, which arose between the twelfth and eighth centuries BC, and deals with the origin of the gods and the world, the struggle between the gods for supremacy and the final victory of Zeus, the love and quarrels of the gods, the adventures and powers of the gods on the mortal world, including the relationship with natural phenomena such as storms or seasons, and the places and rituals of worship. Ancient Greek myths and stories were formed very early, and they were the result of the collective creation of generations of Greeks in ancient times.

Myths were first passed down orally, but later found in the written word. Its earliest written document is the Homeric epic. In addition to the main story, there are many other mythological tales mentioned in the epic, which were apparently widespread at the time.

Shortly after Homer, there was the ancient Greek poet Hesiod's long poem "The Genealogy of the Gods", which briefly recounted many mythological stories and tried to genealogy them. The themes of ancient Greek tragedy are basically based on mythology, which is the dramatic embodiment of the writer's realistic understanding of those mythological stories. Alexandrian scholars in the Hellenistic period after the third century BC made great contributions to the collection and preservation of ancient Greek mythology in their collection and annotation of classical works, and some poets unearthed many little-known mythological allusions under the guidance of intellectual principles.

Greek myths or legends are mostly based on ancient Greek literature, and in addition to classics such as Homer's epics, Theogonies, work and time, the Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Metamorphosis, there are also plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The most famous stories in Greek mythology and legends are the Trojan War, the travels of Odysseus, the search for the Golden Fleece by Iason, the exploits of Hercules, the adventures of Theseus, and the tragedy of Oedipus.

It's all bull's head and not the horse's mouth.

Mythology passed down from mouth to mouth of the awe of nature and evolved, to put it bluntly, in ancient times human beings did not understand anything, thunder felt that there were people or gods in the sky to do things, so there is thunder and lightning, Thor, Zeus these "gods" who play with electricity, that in the face of natural disasters will naturally have these associations, in the face of the unknown, under the premise that it cannot be explained by science, myths are derived, so you can think about it, the similarity of myths lies in the ancient people's guesses about the unknown, I don't know where people come from, That is what "God" made, and I don't know how the fire came from, that it was stolen for them by someone or "God", and that was the Great Flood that angered "God" and was punished by God

Ancient Greek mythology did not have a specific author, but was created orally by the earliest peoples of Europe, roughly between the twelfth and eighth centuries BC. It has been passed down orally for hundreds of years by the ancient Greeks, passed down from generation to generation, and has been continuously artistically processed, and has been preserved in various literary, historical, and philosophical works in the future.

Greek mythology (Greek: i.e., all myths about the gods, heroes, nature, and cosmic history of the ancient Greeks, either orally or in writing. The spiritual product of primitive clan society, the earliest literary form in Europe.

Produced about before the 8th century B.C., it formed a basic scale on the basis of the long-term oral transmission of the primitive people of Greece, and was later recorded in the "Homeric Epic" and Hesiod's "Theogony" and ancient Greek poetry, drama, history, philosophy and other works, and later generations organized them into the current ancient Greek mythological stories, which are divided into two parts: the story of the gods and the legend of heroes.

The earliest oral creations of the peoples of Europe.

It arose from about the 12th century BC to AD.

Between the VIII centuries BC. It went through hundreds of ancient Greeks.

Years of oral transmission, from generation to generation, continuous art.

processing, in the later various literature, history, philosophy.

Preserved in the study of writings.

It is not written by anyone, but it is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient Greek people and the maritime civilization, mainly in Homer's epic poems, which are particularly full, as well as the "Theogony".

China did not steal fire, and the creation of human beings was different, and the flood is estimated to be worldwide, so it is recorded.

Ancient China was an agrarian civilization, in the agrarian civilization required the wind and rain to be smooth, so that agriculture can have a bumper harvest, in reality there are many floods affecting the agricultural harvest phenomenon, so such a requirement is reflected in the myth that man defeated the flood.

Ancient Greece was a city-state, these city-states were open and expansive, and most of their means of subsistence were exchanged between various city-states, while the agricultural civilization was closed, and food could only be self-sufficient. According to the research of relevant scholars, the grain ** in ancient Greece was very developed.

Hehe! Because the West is more pragmatic! The Flood Beast is not so vulnerable!

Before the emergence of human rights in ancient Greece, it was theocratic rule, and democracy was different

Because Westerners have big ships - Noah's Ark.

Because the Chinese have a lot of thinking power.

Because the history of Chinese civilization is earlier than that of Greece, Greek mythology has not been traced back to that era of monstrous floods, and Greece is a mountainous country, with fewer large plains, and floods are less harmful to Greece.

Greek Mythology: Prometheus Prometheus was one of the Titans. In Zeus's war with the giants, he sided with the new Olympian mountain gods.

He made the first man out of clay. Athena gave the man a soul and divine life. Prometheus also spent a lot of time and effort creating fire and gifting it to humans.

Fire makes man the spirit of all things. After this, the first joint meeting of God and man was held. This meeting will decide which part of the barbecued animal should be given to God and which part should be given to humans.

Prometheus cut open a cow and divided it into two parts: he put the meat under the skin and the bones under the fat. Because he knew that the selfish Zeus loved to eat fat.

Zeus saw through his tricks. Prometheus favored humans, which made Zeus unhappy. Therefore, he arbitrarily took the fire away from the hands of mankind.

However, Prometheus managed to steal the Skyfire and secretly bring it to humans. Zeus was furious at this brazen act of disobedience on his part. He ordered the other mountain gods to chain Prometheus to a rock in the Caucasus Mountains.

A hungry eagle comes and pecks at his liver every day, and his liver always grows back. His suffering will last for 30,000 years. And he was steadfast in the face of suffering and never lost his courage in the face of Zeus.

Eventually, Hercules restored the friendship between Prometheus and Zeus, found the golden apple, killed the eagle, and thus freed the old human friend.