ALL ABOUT HISTORY #40 – GREEK MYTHOLOGY

ALL ABOUT HISTORY #40 – GREEK MYTHOLOGY

All About History #40 has as its destination a world where the real and the imaginary are confused. It is about Greek Mythology, the most comprehensive collection of stories that go back to the realm of fantasy. It represents the first comprehensive and recorded attempt, derived from the past, to understand the natural world and its connection with the concept of divinity.

Through the pages of the issue, readers have the opportunity to "meet" again the protagonists of Greek Mythology, from the twelve gods and the struggle for their domination, the heroes, as well as the persons who saved this world for us. Consequently, the faces of Homer and Hesiod are revealed, who were the first chronologically to highlight an important part of this rich past.

Greek mythology is unique for its richness, its diversity, but mainly because it was the first expressive means of understanding the world. At the same time, the Greeks did not turn this creation into an absolute and indisputable principle, but systematically deconstructed it at the level of interpretation of the world through the search for a logical understanding of it through science and mainly through philosophy.

Finally, a most fascinating aspect of Greek Mythology, which emerges through the pages of this issue, is connected with its effect on the history of the human spirit. Of special interest should be seen the issues related to the relationship between the arts and Greek Mythology, and especially the degree of its influence on the formation of the sciences related to the human personality itself, especially psychology.

Good reading!

Chrysostomos Bobaridis
Historian – Department of Ancient History,
University of Siena

ALL ABOUT HISTORY #40 – GREEK MYTHOLOGY

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