Ancient Greek mythology embodies a strong humanistic color. Greek mythology embodies the innocence, simplicity, lively romance of human childhood, as well as the tenacious will and beautiful ideals of the ancient Greeks who longed to conquer nature.
In terms of artistic expression, Greek mythology is rich in imagination, vivid in content, and beautiful in story. It contains both romantic exaggeration and realistic description, showing the rich imagination and great creativity of the ancient Greeks.
The ancient Greek mythology is a shining pearl in the world's classical civilization and occupies a very important position in the history of world culture. Greek mythology is the result of the original consciousness activities of the ancient Greeks. It is a collection of stories and heroic legends about gods by the ancient Greeks. It artistically summarizes their understanding of nature and society, concentrates their experiences and ideals, and expresses their indignation against social injustice. It originated from the oral literature of primitive society. At that time, each tribe in Greece had its own stories of gods and heroes. These stories were passed down from generation to generation in various tribes in oral form for hundreds of years. Later, with the development of exchanges between regions, Increasingly frequent and close, numerous and sporadic myths constituted an extremely complex mythological system, which was absorbed by Homer's Epic, Hesiod's Theogony, and literary, historical and philosophical works of the classical period, and gradually It has become the unique spiritual wealth of all Greece. But Greek mythology is not a complete work. The collections of Greek mythology stories commonly seen today are compiled and compiled by later generations based on ancient books.
Any myth uses imagination and the help of imagination to conquer and visualize natural forces. Therefore, as these natural forces are actually controlled, myths gradually disappear. Judging from the background of the creation of ancient Greek myths, it is mainly because the ancient Greeks were at a low stage of social development at that time, with insufficient knowledge, low productivity, and extremely difficult lives. Under such conditions, they can only understand natural and social phenomena with the help of imagination. In the imagination of the ancient Greeks, mountains, rivers, trees, sun, moon and stars were all figures of gods, and life, old age, illness, death, misfortune, success or failure all depended on the will of gods. For this purpose they created a huge family of gods, which gave rise to myths. For example, there is a myth that King Tartarus chopped his son into pieces, burned them into delicacies, and served them to the gods. Zeus was furious because of this and punished him to stand in the water up to his neck forever. When he was thirsty and wanted to open his mouth to drink, the water would recede. At the same time, there were fruit trees hanging above his head, and the fruits were crystal clear and lovely, but when he was hungry When he wants to eat the fruit, the branches will automatically rise, making him out of reach and enduring the torment of hunger forever. Another example is Sisyphus, who was a tyrant and was punished after his death by pushing a boulder to the top of a mountain in hell. But every time he pushed the layman to the top of the mountain, the boulder automatically rolled down again, and he had to push it again. Repeatedly, the cycle continues. It should be said that these philosophical stories truly depict the image of the ancient Greeks who were tortured and confused in nature and society.