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In their effort to explain and understand the universe and nature, the ancient Greeks invented stories, known as myths. Those tales explained the world surrounding them through the stories of Gods who were personifications of forces of nature or different aspects of social life. Those gods had frailties of human (greed, jealousy, anger, etc…) as well as superhuman powers. They could be fair to each one and to human as well as extremely wrong and incalculable. Greek gods were archetypes which represented idealized aspects of the complex human psyche.
Here are some of the basics, most famous figures of the Mythology of Greece and the Greek Islands, in an attempt to explain the mythological background of Greece, a precious knowledge to every visitor who wishes to see and understand Greece’s ancient sites.
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Greece Mytholgy 1
Greece Mythology 2
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