WHAT ARE THE GREEK MYTHS?
Simply put, a myth is a story which is not factual but which may contain a grain of truth within it. Myths are those stories that define a culture and influence the way its members think, feel and behave. The Greek myths are stories created by the people who lived in the country of Greece in ancient times. The stories are very old nobody really knows exactly how old and were originally told instead of written down. The oldest known example of a written myth dates from about 750 BC about 2,750 years ago! And the man who wrote it, a storyteller named Homer, was not the first one to tell the story. That particular story, The Iliad, may be at least 500 years older than Homer! Myths served many purposes, and the storytellers were considered to be among the most important people in town (or in the country, or in the village). There was no television back then, certainly no video games or movies, no radio not even books, for the most part! Most people could not read or write. Back then, thoug
