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Paul August (talk | contribs) I don't know what this is supposed to mean exactly (I don't think it's correct to say that myths are told "in religion"), and it also seems to imply that all of Greek mythology is "religious", which is simply not true. |
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{{Greek myth}}
'''Greek mythology''' is the body of [[myth]]s originally told by the [[Ancient Greece|ancient Greeks
The Greek myths were initially propagated in an [[oral tradition|oral-poetic tradition]] most likely by [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]] and [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenaean]] singers starting in the 18th century BC;<ref>{{cite web|last1=Cartwirght|first1=Mark|title=Greek Mythology|url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Greek_Mythology/|website=World History Encyclopedia|access-date=26 March 2018|archive-date=18 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418165021/https://www.worldhistory.org/Greek_Mythology/|url-status=live}}</ref> eventually the myths of the heroes of the [[Trojan War]] and its aftermath became part of the oral tradition of [[Homer]]'s [[Epic poetry|epic poems]], the ''[[Iliad]]'' and the ''[[Odyssey]]''. Two poems by Homer's near contemporary [[Hesiod]], the ''[[Theogony]]'' and the ''[[Works and Days]]'', contain accounts of the genesis of the world, the succession of divine rulers, the succession of human ages, the origin of human woes, and the origin of sacrificial practices. Myths are also preserved in the ''[[Homeric Hymns]]'', in fragments of epic poems of the [[Epic Cycle]], in [[Lyric poetry|lyric poems]], in the works of the [[Tragedy|tragedians]] and [[Ancient Greek comedy|comedians]] of the fifth century BC, in writings of scholars and poets of the [[Hellenistic civilization|Hellenistic Age]], and in texts from the time of the [[Roman Empire]] by writers such as [[Plutarch]] and [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]].
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