Greek mythology is the spiritual product of primitive clan society and the earliest literary form in Europe. Approximately produced before the 8th century BC, it formed its basic scale based on long-term oral transmission by the original Greek people and drawing on myths from other countries that spread to Greece. It was later developed in Homer's Epic and Hesiod's The Gods They were recorded in the "Music Spectrum" and ancient Greek poetry, drama, history, philosophy and other works. Later generations organized them into the current ancient Greek mythology stories, which are divided into two parts: stories of gods and legends of heroes. This work contains a large amount of original information about Greek mythology (such as the genealogy of the gods), mainly heroic myths, and is an important document for modern scholars to study ancient Greek mythology. Because Apollodorus, who lived from 180 to 120 BC, completed many related works based on it, it is now customary to call the author of the book "Pseudo-Apolodorus".
Roman mythology did not actually exist. It was not until the end of the Roman Republic that Roman poets began to imitate Greek mythology and write their own myths. The Romans did not have traditional gods like those in Greek mythology. The legend of the struggle between.
The Roman tradition had a well-developed ritual, priests, and a group of interrelated gods.
A rich set of legends about the birth and development of Rome in which humans played a major role and gods sometimes intervened. This shows that the Romans had a different understanding of God than the Greeks. If you ask an ancient Greek who Demeter is, he will say that Demeter had a very beautiful daughter who was robbed by Hades, so Demeter was very sad, and so on.
Greek mythological stories and lyric poems often use mythology as a background, but their descriptions often deviate from the facts and add more of the author's fantasy. The poetry of Hellenistic civilization and ancient Rome was more literary and artistic. Most of the ancient Greek myths or legends come from ancient Greek literature. Greek myths originate from the ancient Aegean civilization and are slightly similar to the Chinese Shang and Zhou civilization.
The gods in Greek mythology have the same shape and sex as humans. They have the beauty of human bodies and the seven emotions and six desires of humans. They understand joy, anger, sorrow, and participate in human activities. The only difference between gods and humans is that the former has eternal life and has no period of death; the latter has a limited life and is subject to birth, old age, illness and death. The gods in Greek mythology have distinct personalities, no ascetic elements, and little mysticism. The beauty of Greek mythology is that gods still have a destiny and can still be trapped by love and do bad things for their own benefit. Therefore, Greek mythology is not only the soil of Greek literature, but also has a profound influence on later European literature.
The gods of early Roman religion did not have human forms, they were just gods. Their rituals were simple, mechanical, and lacked ideological content. They could not have any impact on ordinary people's lives and morality. They only generally praised God's favor. Focuses on field life and personal families. With the expansion and consolidation of Roman power, the state took measures to rectify the setting of gods, unifying many gods with certain arbitrariness in their scattering and setting into one to three gods.