Hades In Ancient Greek Mythology
Ancient Greek created many myths because they couldn’t explain some of the things that happened to them or around them. Mythology was part of Greek civilization and they used to use it as their religion or other reasons. Ancient Greek mythology is one of the oldest myths we have and goes back thousands of years ago. I decided to choose the mythology of Hades but the myth doesn’t tell us much valuable historical information because Hades was the ruler of the underworld and ruler of the dead. Hade personally fit him well in the underworld as he was “Most feared of the Gods, he is described by Homer and Hesiod as pitiless, loathsome and monstrous Hades” (by Cartwright, Mark. "Hades." Ancient History Encyclopedia). Some information on Hades is
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Zeus was the only child that Cronos did not swallow because their mom Rhea prevented Zeus from being swallowed. Zeus brought his siblings back to life and they all overthrown there father and the titans. The war ended when Cronos died and then they locked the titans away. The siblings drew lots for the division of the cosmos. Hades won being ruler of the underworld. In today’s world some religion still use the underworld theory and that’s where the evil people go, it is very similar to the mythology that Greeks used. It’s not scientifically proven and it’s based on peoples beliefs, therefore it’s just a myth that Greeks used to live by to explain the way of life. The ancient Greeks made up mythology of the Olympian Gods so they could have a better way of living life like in most religions today. The limitations to using this particular myth as a source of historical information is that the ancient Greeks used to tell these mythology by mouth and then later they started to write it down. We also don’t know who created these myths and therefore we can’t rely on it for historical information. The Greek used this for religions,
Zeus was the only child that Cronos did not swallow because their mom Rhea prevented Zeus from being swallowed. Zeus brought his siblings back to life and they all overthrown there father and the titans. The war ended when Cronos died and then they locked the titans away. The siblings drew lots for the division of the cosmos. Hades won being ruler of the underworld. In today’s world some religion still use the underworld theory and that’s where the evil people go, it is very similar to the mythology that Greeks used. It’s not scientifically proven and it’s based on peoples beliefs, therefore it’s just a myth that Greeks used to live by to explain the way of life. The ancient Greeks made up mythology of the Olympian Gods so they could have a better way of living life like in most religions today. The limitations to using this particular myth as a source of historical information is that the ancient Greeks used to tell these mythology by mouth and then later they started to write it down. We also don’t know who created these myths and therefore we can’t rely on it for historical information. The Greek used this for religions,