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According to Hamilton how does greek mythology differ from folklore of other ancient cultures why does it differ?
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∙ 13y ago
Unlike many other ancient cultures the Greek gods were human shaped and human nature at heart, they loved, they pitied, they cried - they were not monsters that only hated and were vengeful - there is a certain beauty in the Greek myths whose gods and goddesses were portrayed later as being beyond the need of human sacrifice which marked so many other cultures. There are hints to the dark past of Greek myth, but in the myths they seem remote even in the time when Greek myth was old religion.
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