Posts Tagged ‘Mythology’
After I had made Greek Mythology : A Lensography of Legends, a page for my small collection of tales from ancient Greece, I asked advice on why this one was totally ignored. And good advice I got too!
One suggestion was to broaden the topic and have, not just the links to my Greek myths, but to draw an outline of what the ancient Greeks actually believed. An abbreviated cosmogony.
I keep forgetting that not everyone learned about the Greeks in primary school, it depends on the educational guidelines of their country and also on the age that they attended school. Sometimes the brush of mythology is drawn faintly, but the knowledge that our society is the way that is is – surely that’s taught in schools globally?
The Greeks invented everything from Western warfare to mystical prayer, from logic to statecraft, poetry, drama, philosophy, art, architecture and a whole lot in between. Our thought is Greek thought.
The best book I’ve ever seen which sums up the whole Greek influence on our present society is the wonderfully written Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter
I love Thomas Cahill and devour his books. Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea is the fourth volume in his Hinges of History series.
