Where greeks came from

The religions of ancient Greece and Rome may have lost all of their followers, but not their importance on the world and history. It is from the Greek that we inherited science and religion, their culture and knowledge is still part of our world today. Many of their beliefs about the world and its territories where very limited to the surrounding lands. They had many gods to fulfill different roles and to help them explain events for which science could not yet find an explanation. On the other hand, myths where also used to explain history, and how things came to be.”The creation of the world is a problem naturally fitted to excite the liveliest interest of man, its inhabitant”. These myths try to explain history and unknown things through a story interesting to hear, something completely invented and without any facts to support. The myth of Prometheus and Pandora, for example, states that at first the world was a chaos of disorganized matter, until a god came and gave everything a place and established order. This Titan was called Prometheus, the one who created the world and man from chaos. Jupiter made Pandora, the first female, as a punishment for stealing fire from heaven to give it to man. This shows that ancient Greece was a very sexist society, describing the creation of women as a punishment. But when Pandora opened a box full of wretched elements, they all flew away into earth, and brought hatred, greed, envy and other evil things into the world. But hope didn’t go away, this proves hope is of the most valuable elements even for geeks, and that element of hope we see repeated in various myths. Or as the myth of Apollo and Daphne, which not only tells an interesting story, but attempts to explain the creation of laurel trees. All this Ancient mythology was the way Greeks found to explain all they couldn’t understand. It’s going to be very interesting to read all this myths and learn about ancient civilizations through their stories. I look forward to reading about various different cultures and beliefs, because the only way to know who we are is to know where we come from.