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How was Greek mythology a part of everyday life of the early Greek people?
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∙ 14y ago
Greek mythology was a way for the early Greeks to explain events that they did not yet understand. An example is that they explained the change of the seasons through the story of Hades and Persephone.
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∙ 14y agoYes, but mostly on a language basis.
References to it are quite frequent in everyday words; such as the months of March, or January; named after the deities 'Mars' and 'Janus'.
Then there are terms such as 'Thanatology' - the study of death, and dying; after the Greek God, Thanatos.
Terms such as 'Tartarus' and 'Hades' are still used to represent life after death, and normally used as alternative names for modern religious locations such as Hell, Sheol, Gehenna, and so forth.
Hercules is still used as a term to refer to exceptionally strong people.
There are numerous other references.
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