Greek Mythology

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n man's long history, every people, whatever stage of civilization it achieved, has felt | the need to create fables and tales to justify, explain, and interpret various elements of nature, from atmospheric phenomena to the welling up of springs, from the multicolor variety of flowers to the destructive fury of earthquakes and even the innermost workings of the humán mind and spirit In ancient Greece, the fervid, creative imagination of a people that welcomed commercial and cultural exchanges with the entire Mediterranean basin originated a rational and wellorganized corpus of myth and legend-
The mythology of ancient Greece created figures of universal value, figures which over the ages have played the roles of immortal paradigms for humán behavior and ethics. From the legacy transmitted by the Romans to the interpretations of Greek mythology by the men of letters of the Middle Ages. From the renewed interest in the ancient sources that arose during the Renaissance and the... Tovább

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n man's long history, every people, whatever stage of civilization it achieved, has felt | the need to create fables and tales to justify, explain, and interpret various elements of nature, from atmospheric phenomena to the welling up of springs, from the multicolor variety of flowers to the destructive fury of earthquakes and even the innermost workings of the humán mind and spirit In ancient Greece, the fervid, creative imagination of a people that welcomed commercial and cultural exchanges with the entire Mediterranean basin originated a rational and wellorganized corpus of myth and legend-
The mythology of ancient Greece created figures of universal value, figures which over the ages have played the roles of immortal paradigms for humán behavior and ethics. From the legacy transmitted by the Romans to the interpretations of Greek mythology by the men of letters of the Middle Ages. From the renewed interest in the ancient sources that arose during the Renaissance and the Humanist era, to the readings of the myths by Neoclassicism and Romanticism, to the peculiar metaphysical interpretations of contemporary art in our own times. An extraordinary and uninterrupted itinerary through the history of ideas and the history of men, which once again demonstrates how the values expressed by the mythological figures created in ancient Greece have gradually been transmitted to all the cultures of the Western world. Vissza