Does Greek Mythology gives a great significant in our life?

Question

For me it's just only part of the history.

Answer 1

yes and believe it or not even the Bible, religious holidays, and modern day religion in general still is laced and intertwine with Roman, Greek, Egyptian, and Norse mythology. examples christmas, easter, our days of the week and calenders just to name a few.

Answer 2

As an Avid researcher of Folklore and Mythology. I have to say Yes!

Why? Greek Mythology is popularly known as Classical Mythology. It holds many stories of heroism, romance and principles.

It is the basis of many famous literature today, for example:
The Romantic tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe, is the classic Romeo and Juliet.
It is the origin of many sayings.... Achilles Heel, Oedipus Complex, Herculean and many more

But the most important role of Classical Myths is the evolution of science. Because take note, mythology was the way of how people explained what was happening around them, it was a healty sign that they were thinking. If people during those days didn't come up with ideas why was the volcano erupting, why did it rain, why is there thunder? Then nobody would have gone the trouble of finding out if it were true. It was the very foundation of science, and that my friend is the greatest significance of mythology in our lives.

Answer 3

Analyzing Greek Mythology does give us many answers on human nature and on how things worked in the past. Almost all mythologies do that for us. Understanding the past helps us to create a better future and Greek mythology shows how little man has changed in many things, all the myths hide historical facts of the time or of a past before the myth was written, many myths explain how nature works, and if we look at the virtues and flaws of the Greek gods we see how much of human nature was put in their figures and how much our human nature has remained similar in the centuries. I do believe Mythology is important, it may not change our life, but it may make it richer.

Answer 4

Yes it does. Without it, democracy wouldn't exist today. The Greeks were the first civilization to put man in the center of the universe as opposed to the gods being the center. Before them, most civilizations centered around the worship of cruel and vengeful gods who needed to be appeased thru sacrifices. Every facet of their lives revolved around these pagan god worship from the early Sumerians to the Egyptians and Persians. Their rulers were considered gods themselves. But the greeks were different, although they still believed in gods, they also believed that man made his own destiny and can defy the gods who were portrayed as petty and flawed. The greatest of the greek heroes were those who defied the gods. Theseus, Hercules, Perseus, Jason, Odysseus and many more, some of them may have been half-god themselves, but nevertheless, they defied the powers that be for the sake of man. This view of the gods and the greeks as a whole, led to a new philosophy that said man can determine his own fate. From this view comes logic and democracy or the rule of the population.

Answer 5

Well it's the idea of the common thread between all ancient peoples to me, from the Celts of Ireland since Cessair through Rome, Greece, Minoans, Sumerians, India to China and arguably the Americas (war about ancient transoceanic navigation still rages), these common mythology patterns (change the names is all) should work to pull us together. If you look up Graham Hancock, his theories of civilizations being displaced by melting ice age glaciers seems to match up with these common threads of mythology and megalithic structures worldwide. Maybe it's just coincidence, who knows? In a greater part the oral traditions of mythology was the moral code and system of governance, it laid out the lose principles of society so that people could live together in communities where each had specific roles and expectations.

Answer 6

It gives us symbolic and metaphorical insight into the truth of our experiences of the natural necessities of the material world (ex. the cycles of nature, the elements of the natural world), and insight into the human condition itself. In this sense, myths, like those of the Greeks, are not only history, but a contemporary reality-- even if we do not believe in or worship entities like the Olumpian pantheon.

Answer 7

Hammurabi of Babylon passed down a code of laws and morals which influenced the Phoenicians and Greeks who then influenced every other Western civilizations.

Answer 8

Greek mythology is a reinterpretation of other older myths.

Answer 9

Whether they actually do or not, I believe they should, for many of them can teach. Pandora's myth, for example. Or Narcissus. Many myths, both Greek and others, have lessons if one is but to search for them.

Answer 10

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