How much of Greek mythology is basically ancient fanfiction? Like, how much of what we think the ancient Greeks actually believed about their religion was genuine belief, and how much was just stories or creative retellings? For example, take Paradise Lost, it’s set entirely in the biblical world and was written by a devout Christian, but it’s still a fictional story using religious and mythological figures. So how much of what we call “Greek mythology” might just be their version of Paradise Lost
t. Post-2000's born animals (they're not people) don't understand imagination & art tandem.There's no fanfiction in art.>There are no fans of it, it's not a speedway team.>It's all fiction.Fanfiction would be images of these Gods on rule 34 dot paheal, if anything close to this.I bet you use reddit tho.I dare you to use the word "basically" again, motherfuckin' mutt - basically this thread belongs in >>>/trash/
You're coming from a modern liberal perspectiveYour cynical nihilistic brain will never understand because you can't abandon your worldview
>>18110361This is more or less what the Greek plays were like especially the Bacchae which might have been slightly satirical
>>18110361Ovid's Metamorphoses is an example of what you're talking about. Where he took a bunch of ancient myths and rewrote them as political references and tracts. As for genuine belief vs creative writing, that is hard to say. How much the Greeks actually believed in their Gods changed with time and social class. By the time of Plato, a lot of the Greek intelligensia really didn't take the stories of their Gods as real anymore, instead seeing them as basically atavistic myths by dumb people projecting their flawed humanity onto ideal and perfect divine powers. But at the same time you had powerful and deep intellectually strong cults like the Orphics that genuinely believed in their group of Gods as real beings. Playwrights shifted between writing purely literary works and religious sermons on the Gods depending on the author or the work. So for some things, like Ovid's works, you have a Paradise Lost analogy. For others, you're looking at a pretty messy mix.
>>18110361somethe origin of the greek myths are the happening in the space
>>18110361You dont understand why myths exist they are needed to understand the unconscious the unconscious consists of archetypes, ancient biological patterns that together form the human base experience. when a symbol of an archetype like a king is seen externally through art or storytelling this helps integrate and develop the person especially children. Because these base biological patterns are universal across humanity myths which need to tell similar stories develop similar beats and characters, but the meaning is essentially the same behind the specific symbols chosen to tell that myth which differ per culture but the patterns behind it dont. If you were to destroy ever copy of the bible similar stories would manifest and be written out because its this code within us thats universal an ancient long string of epigenometic expressions caused by the experience of every ancestor that lived before you.
