Did the Greeks Believe Their Myths?

Clearly, at least some faith in the gods is part of the community life of the ancient Greek community, like the Romans (Community life is more important than personal beliefs)

In the polytheistic Mediterranean world there are many gods and goddesses. In the Greek world, each prefecture or prefecture has a specific patron saint. God may be like a patron saint of a neighboring city state, but rituals may be different, or each city state may worship different aspects of the same god.

These sacrifices are part of civic life, a network of sacred and secular people - a festival. Before important things happen, leaders seek the "opinions" of the gods through fortunetelling. People wear amulets to protect themselves from demons. Several people have joined the mysterious cult organization. The story written by the writer contains contradictory details about the interaction between God and human beings. Important families proudly follow their ancestors or their legendary sons of God, their myths are full of their myths

Festival - A dramatic festival like the great tragedies of Greece and the Olympic Games of ancient Greece's pan-Greece is to put together the community to commemorate the gods. Sacrifice means that the community shares meals not only with his compatriots but also with the gods. Proper compliance means that the gods are highly likely to show good intentions to humans and help them

Nevertheless, people know the natural interpretation of natural phenomena, otherwise they are attributed to God's happiness and dissatisfaction. Some philosophers and poets criticize the supernatural focus of popular polytheism.

Socrates was accused of not convincing his life properly and paid for his non-patriotic religious beliefs.

"Socrates refused to recognize the gods recognized by the state and committed a crime by introducing his own strange gods, he also committed crimes against young people."

We can not read their thoughts, but we can make speculative remarks. Perhaps the ancient Greeks deduced to construct a worldview that was inferred from the power of their observation and reasoning - what they had learned and conveyed to us. In his book on this subject, Paul Veyne wrote:

"Myths are reality, but this is not a mixture of historical truths and lies, unless they are literally understood, it is a perfectly correct teaching of advanced philosophy.

The revision of the oldest texts calling themselves "Greek myths" may be done by those who do not believe them, or by those who do not believe in their more incredible transformation. We know little about "incredible story" spreading under the name of Palaephatus. It conveniently means "to be spoken long ago" or "ancient reputation". This is an unusual job aimed at destroying the story that has long been celebrated with art and songs, at least it seems to be a product of the 4th century BC.

In the Olympic myth of my Greek Amateur Athletic Stadium (1984), I think that ancient Greeks did not understand or practiced the concept of amateur athletes. At the time, most classicalists, sports historians, and the media believed that the ancient Olympics were "strict amateurs" but instead used the word Avery Burundage. As the chairman of the International Olympic Committee, Brundage quoted ancient Greek precedents to prove that he performed the strictest amateur rules. The departure of Brundage is accelerating not only my books but also the disappearance of hobbies at the contemporary Olympic Games. But now classicals and historians rarely return amateurism to ancient Greeks. Amateur rhythm, the kind of trouble of the Hyundai Olympic Games in the past 100 years is now only a historical relic of classical scholarship.

The ancient Greeks believed in a series of myths that explained nature, set moral standards for Greek people, and some were just entertainment stories. These myths have transformed the Greek world from a fearful world to a wonderfully beautiful world. Many of these gods and goddesses are related to specific missions and activities (Baxton). The Greeks believe that the gods are integrated in every aspect of their lives. Ancient Greeks as polytheistic culture created many luxurious myths about the twelve gods and goddesses who believed that these myths dominate all aspects of their lives.