GREEK MYTHOLOGY- - JOY'S BIRTHDAY

                                                

Greek mythology is a series of myths told by ancient Greeks, ancient Greek folklore. They concern the origin of life and the world, the lives and activities of the gods and mythological entities, and the origin and significance of Greek culture and ritual practices.

 

The Greek myths were generated in a practical tradition by Minoans and Mycenaeans starting at the 18^th century BC.  Then the legends of the Trojan War and its aftermath as described in Homer’s famous epics Iliad and Odyssey and Hesiod’s Theogeny and Works and Days contain accounts of the beginning of the world, ancient gods, humans and their woes and the origin of sacrificial practices.

 

Myths were also preserved in the Epic Cycle in lyric poems, in the works of tragedians and comedians of the 5^th century BC in writings of scholars of the Hellenistic Era, in the texts of the Roman Empire by Pausanias and Plutarch.

 

Aside pictorial representation of gods, heroes and myths are depicted on ancient vase pottery of the 8^th century BC, showing the labours of Hercules.   In the succeeding Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods Homeric and various other mythologies cut scenes attached to supplementation.

 

The Epic Cycle was a collection of ancient Greek poems related to the Trojan War, including Cypieus and Aethiopis the so-called Little Iliad, the Nostos and the Telegony.

 

Unlike the Iliad and Odyssey, the Cyclic Epics exist only in fragments and symmetries of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Period.

 

The Epic Cycle was literally born of an oral tradition that had developed during the Greek Dark Ages which was based on a local hero cult.  The traditional material from Literary Epics was drawn from the Mycenaeans, Bronze Age, and later Greece.

 

In modern scholarship, the study of the historical, literary relationships between the Homeric epics and the rest of the cycle is called Neoalalysis.

 

A longer Epic Cycle, as described by the 9th-century scholar and clergyman in his Bibliotheca also included the Titanomachy (8^th century BC) and the Theban Cycle (770-500 BC) which in turn composed the Oedipean and the Theban Epigons and the Alemaones.

 

However, it is certain that none of the Cycle Epics, except Homer’s, survived Photius’s day and it is likely that he was not mentioned as a canonical collection.   

 

Modern scholars do not include the Theban Cycle when they are referring to Epic Cycle.    

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