Greek Beliefs In The Odyssey

Myths are conservative stories that concern the early history of people or describing a miracle, and including supernatural people or events. Myths may be true or not. All the mythical stories told are connected to religious beliefs and rituals. Myths can also be explaining other things such as a custom or natural process. For example, the Greeks of the ancient times claim to see a god (Apollo) driving a golden chariot tied to fiery horses and dragging the sun across the sky. Back in time, myths were stories about characters such as gods, goddess, men, women, and most importantly heroes. Ancient people would use myths to teach values, morals and also to help explain their unexplainable. Here I’m going to discuss the myths and their influences

A few examples are: His belief in the gods interfering with human actions - he believed that the gods should be pleased with sacrifices in order to smooth their anger towards them, the mortals. It is also shown that Homer believed in gods having children with mortals. On the contrary,Valmiki expressed his views in somewhat a different manner. According to him, the gods did interfere with humans, but they never directly bred with humans. If there wanted to have a mortal with some of their attributes, they’d rather incarnate themselves as men, or send blessings to a specific couple before having their child. Homer emphasized the characteristics of the Greek gods by presenting them more like persons, not abstractions, ideas or concepts. Apart from their basic forms, the Ancient Greek gods had many fantastic abilities, where they were not affected by disease, but could be wounded under highly unusual circumstances. From Valmiki’s perspective, Hindu gods were untouchable but they were often bound by their words and promises. Now let’s move forward to see how much of these epic stories are true? Are they facts or works of

Nearly 3,000 years after Odysseus returned from his journey, the team said they found the remains of a building and a well from the 8th century BC, roughly the period in which Odysseus is believed to have been king of Ithaca. These evidences indicate that Odysseus is indeed real and his journey may have been true. On the other hand, many claim that the happenings of The Ramayana can be proved to be historical - to say that The Ramayana did take place in history and Rama did exist in the past. The bridge built for Rama by his army, known as Rama’s Bridge, and the place where he ruled, Ayodhya, exist in India which support this claim. However till now, Ramayana is not officially considered as historical because of lack of evidence to prove its