Greco-Roman myths

Greek mythology is the set of myths and legends belonging to the culture of Ancient Greece, dealing with its gods and heroes, the nature of the world, the origins and the meaning of its own cults and ritual practices. Modern researchers turn to and study myths in an attempt to shed light on ancient Greece's religious and political institutions and civilization, as well as to better understand the nature of myth-making itself. Greek mythology appears explicitly in an extensive collection of stories and implicitly in figurative arts such as painted pottery and votive offerings. Greek myths attempt to explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, heroes, and other mythological creatures.

These stories were originally spread in an oral poetic tradition, although today the myths are known mainly from Greek literature. Myths were also preserved in Homeric hymns, in fragments of epic poetry from the Trojan cycle, in lyrical poems, in the works of playwrights of the 5th century BC. The archaeological finds are an important source of details on Greek mythology, with gods and heroes prominently featured in the decoration of many objects. Greek mythology has had a wide influence on the culture, art and literature of Western civilization and remains part of Western cultural heritage and language.

When we speak of Greek mythology, we refer to the set of stories, myths and legends belonging to Ancient Greece (c. 1200 BC-146 BC), considered as the cultural cradle of Western civilization.

It is collected in a diverse set of surviving texts in history, in which it is realized how the ancient Greeks explained the world, practiced their religion and represented their culture, as well as in sculptures, illustrations, ceramics and other forms of art that respond to the same imaginary.


The stories that make up Greek mythology were initially oral in nature, since in many cases they predate the invention of writing. These stories were recited by bards or aedas, and later embodied or versioned in writing.

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