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Much of Greek (and other) mythology is an attempt to derive meaning - and a set of 'rules' - from the observations of life, the physical world and the spiritual thoughts of mankind.

Like most 'religions' it is an attempt to understand our place in the world - it even developed into how humans should behave - the mortal heroes of the later parts of the stories were exemplars which men should aspire to imitate.

There is no one 'meaning' to be drawn from it - there are many tales and morals involved and some contrast with others so that they give contrary 'advice'. It must be remembered that this mythology was a distillation of countless years of philosophy and drew on several earlier sources.

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