I always found it fasinating to study because I wanted there to be more than just this human existance.
2007-04-13 14:57:19 · 7 answers · asked by Chloe 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Religions are something that is hard to track unless there was a founder. If you want to find the origin of Greek and Roman mythology I'm afraid you will have to break it down more. Each individual deity evolved at one point or another, they didn't all show up at Greece and Rome's doorstep in one leap and bound. If you research the deities individually, you'll see that this one originally came from Egypt, this one came from Indian, this one is a deified human, we have no idea where this one came from he was just always there and so on. It's not an easy process. There is a book that you can request from your local Barns & Noble or Books-A-Million called Encyclopedia of Deities. If you look up a particular one it usually has this kind of information within that deities passage. You sound very interesting and I would love to talk more with you. Thank you for asking.
2007-04-13 15:06:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anachronist 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some myths originated from what has happened in the
remote past. The Aeneid by Virgil, the largest epic of
ancient Europe is an example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeneas
Many cognate words have formed due to the interaction.
Some are given below. The second one is a Telugu word
having the same meaning which is being used for more
than a 1000 years:
attic - attaca. asset - aasti. beat - baadu. boat -
padava. bore - boriya. boy - abbayi. cavity - guvta.
cattle - goddulu. cheek - chekku. chin - chunbu. cut -
kota. dull - deela. elope - lepuka. fat - boddu.
foundation - punaadi. gale - gaali. lace - allica. link
- lanke. mask - musugu. master - mestri. mead - metha.
mouth - moothi. mud - matti. murky - muriki. nerve -
narav. oath - ottu. pale - paali. pan - penam. pap -
pappa. piece - pisaru. put - pettu. site - chotu. short
- chiruta. show - choopu. slice - cheelchu. suck -
cheeku. surprise - achcheraparachu. sweat - chewata.
theft - thoepidi thick - dukka. thread - thraadu. value
- viluva. veil - valle. vomit - vaamthi. upon - paina.
with - waththa. wonder - winta. yean - yeenu.
2007-04-14 03:09:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Following a time-line I would say that Babylon, Persia, and Sumeria had influence of the later Greek and Roman pantheons and all of them were touched by the Phoenicians and Egyptians.
2007-04-13 16:12:22 · answer #3 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
out of the need to explain the world around them. the gods and goddesses gave humans music, fire and such and the way they did turned into mythology. if you are into it explore this site http://www.pantheon.org/ all the articles there are written by experts on that topic. gives lots of details and not just on well known figures, the lesser known ones are there too.
2007-04-13 15:27:38 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Greece, and (possibly) in Rome. Check out the Pagan Mythology books, you'll eventually get the answer you seek.
2007-04-13 15:04:45 · answer #5 · answered by Spikey and Scruffy's Mummy 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believ it originated form Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome..does that answer your question???
2007-04-13 15:01:58 · answer #6 · answered by Girl in search of an answer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people started to developed religion to explain what they could not understand. so they invited wild stories about gods. that's what modern religion is now. wild stories(the bible) to explain what they couldn't
i too like Greek mythology its interesting
2007-04-13 15:03:41 · answer #7 · answered by Gerardo 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋