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Through it, according to this view, we can retrace the path from civilized man who lives so far from nature , to man who lived in close companionship with nature; and the real interest of the myths is that they lead us back to a time when the world was young and people had a connection with the earth, with trees and seas and flowers and hills, unlike any-thing we ourselves can feel. When the stories were being shaped , we are given to understand , little distinction had as yet been made between  \nthe real and the unreal. The imagina  \ntion was vividly alive and not checked by the reason, so that anyone in the woods might see through the trees a fleeing nymph, or bending over a clear pool to drink, behold in the depths a naiad's face.  \nThe prospect of traveling back to this delightful state of things is held out by nearly every writer who touches upon classical mythology, above all by the poets. In that infinitely remote time primitive man could  \nHave sight of Proteus rising from the sea;  \nOr hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.  \n14 MYTHOLOGY  \nAnd we for a moment can catch, through the myths he made , a glimpse of that strangely and beautifully animated world. But a very brief consideration of the ways of uncivilized peoples everywhere and in all ages is enough to prick that romantic bubble. Nothing is clearer than the fact that prim  \nitive man, whether in New Guinea today or eons ago in the prehistoric wilderness, is not and never has been a creature who peoples his world with bright fancies and lovely visions. Horrors lurked in the primeva  forest, not nymphs and nai  \nads. Terror lived there , with its close attendant, Magic, and its most common defense , Human Sacrifice. Mankind's chief hope of escaping the wrath of whatever divinitieswere then abroad lay in some magical rite , senseless but powerful, or in some offering made atthe cost of pain and grief.  \nTHE MYTHOLOGY OF THE GREEKS  \nThis dark picture is worlds apart from the stories of classical mythology. The study of the way early man looked at his surroundings does not get much help from the Greeks. How briefly the anthropologists treat the Greek myths is notewor  \nthy.  \nOf course the Greeks too had their roots in the primeva  slime. Of course they too once lived a savage life , ugly and brutal. But what the myths show is how high they had risen above the ancient filth and fierceness by the time we have any knowledge of them. Only a few traces of that time are  \nto be found in the stories.  \nWe do not know when these stories were first told in their present shape; but whenever it was, primitive life had been left far behind. The myths as we have them are the creation of great poets. The first written record of Greece is the Iliad Greek mythology begins with Homer, generally believed to be not earlier than a thousand years before Christ. The Iliad is, or contains, the oldest Greek literature; and it is written in a rich and subtle and beautiful language which must have had behind it centuries when men were striving to express themselves with  clarity and beauty, anindisputable proof of civilization. The tales of Greek mythology do not throw any clear light upon what early mankind was like. They do throw an abundance of light upon what early Greeks were like—a matter, it would seem, of more importance to us, who are their descendants intellectually, artistically, · and politically, too. Nothing we learn about them is alien to ourselves. People often speak of \"the Greek  \nmiracle.\" What the  \n[The Greeks, unlike the Egyptians, made their gods in their own image.] Illustration  \n16 MYTHOLOGY  \nPhrase tries to express is the new birth of the world with the awakening of Greec","cbCaihw9SnYeYu1t","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihw9SnYeYu1t","pdf",1646670,174,"English","# Introduction To Classical Mythology\n## Greek and Roman Myths and Human Views\n## From Romantic Hope to Anthropological Reality\n## The Mythology of the Greeks\n## Homer, the Iliad, and the Greek Miracle","[{\"question\":\"What does the text claim Greek and Roman mythology can reveal?\",\"answer\":\"It suggests that these myths show how the human race thought and felt long ago, including how people once connected closely with nature.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the text challenge the romantic view of primitive imagination?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that primitive life did not mainly feature bright fancies and lovely visions; instead, horrors and terror were central, often accompanied by magic and human sacrifice.\"},{\"question\":\"What change does the text describe as occurring with Greece?\",\"answer\":\"It states that a new point of view dawned in early Greek poets, placing mankind at the center and shifting thought toward a rational universe focused on the visible.\"}]","Introduction To Classical Mythology - read online free | PDF",1790158505,268]