Understanding Roman Myths
Understanding Roman MythsAvailable for download Understanding Roman Myths
- Author: Robin Johnson
- Date: 01 Mar 2012
- Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Co,US
- Language: English
- Format: Paperback::48 pages
- ISBN10: 0778745155
- ISBN13: 9780778745150
- Publication City/Country: New York, NY, United States
- File size: 31 Mb
- Filename: understanding-roman-myths.pdf
- Dimension: 198.12x 248.92x 7.62mm::181.44g
Myths contain truths that show us how the mind works. A Phrygo-Roman god who was said to be born of a virgin on We understand the stories about the Greek gods because they share some of Myths symbolize human experience and embody the spiritual values of a culture. (Rosenberg) With Greek and Roman Mythology we learn or are introduced to the idea of how the universe is formed, we learn about love and of course we learn about tragedy. Before the creation of humanity, the Greek gods won a great battle against a race of giants called the Titans. Most Titans were destroyed or driven to the eternal hell of Tartarus. But the Titan Prometheus, whose name means foresight, persuaded his brother Epimetheus to fight with him on the side of the Gods. Iseult Gillespie shares the myth of Prometheus. Chiron was the most important Centaur in Greek mythology, famous for his teaching ability. He was the son of the Titan god Cronus and the nymph Philyra. Although centaurs had the upper body of a man and the lower body of a horse, Chiron's front legs were also Jupiter ruled Rome from the mount Olympia. Even this was a similarity between the Roman and the Greek mythology and it wasn
