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A lot of what they believed doesn't fit in with physics, such as the world being flat. Proof requires NASA revealing the conspiracies we know are wrong, and that both the Sun and Moon are chariots.
It wasn't the followers of the Greek and Roman gods who thought the world was being flat.
Me, three. I especially loved the Greek mythology and saw the Romans as copycats, but then in 7th grade our music teacher had us listen to The Ring of the Nibelung, and told us the story along with having us listen to the music, and I learned about Norse mythology. I loved that year.
It's also the only opera about which I ever get the answers on Jeopardy.
Me, three. I especially loved the Greek mythology and saw the Romans as copycats, but then in 7th grade our music teacher had us listen to The Ring of the Nibelung, and told us the story along with having us listen to the music, and I learned about Norse mythology. I loved that year.
It's also the only opera about which I ever get the answers on Jeopardy.
Totally!
I don't know if you can find it any more, but there was a famous comedienne from Australia, Anna Russell, who did a parody of The Ring on one of her albums and it was laugh till you cry hilarious.
I don't know if you can find it any more, but there was a famous comedienne from Australia, Anna Russell, who did a parody of The Ring on one of her albums and it was laugh till you cry hilarious.
But they captivated me as a kid. By the time I was 13 I read every book our city's library had on Greek, Roman and Norse mythology.
When he had time, my Father would read to us from the Illiad, it was like a one man play. Sometimes he would use funny voices (Zeus ending every sentence with a duck's Quak). 30 years after he died, I still find it impossible to read it* in case I lose something.
As to evidence, that could be a problem as my ancestors had flexible ideas about the gods. Homer for example defined his version of the gods to suit his literary agenda, Platon had different ideas about them (and may have also believed in an ultimate transcendent being), and different city states had different versions of the gods.
This flexibility and lack of dogma may have played a major role in allowing a collection of city states to develop the ideas that are important to us today (when they were not trying to kill each other).
* his copy sits on a shelf in my office with an Autobus ticket as a book marker.
But they captivated me as a kid. By the time I was 13 I read every book our city's library had on Greek, Roman and Norse mythology.
Norse yeah. I enjoyed reading on the Norse gods. Greek and Roman not so much. Maybe because I got tired in school of keeping the twin gods for each culture separate. Was it Zeus, or Jupiter? Poseidon or Neptune? Bah!
Seems like there is a revival of the Norse gods going on.
Norse yeah. I enjoyed reading on the Norse gods. Greek and Roman not so much. Maybe because I got tired in school of keeping the twin gods for each culture separate. Was it Zeus, or Jupiter? Poseidon or Neptune? Bah!
Seems like there is a revival of the Norse gods going on.
Probably because of the Thor movies. With my glasses off and in candlelight, my significant other looks just like Chris Hemsworth as Thor.
Norse yeah. I enjoyed reading on the Norse gods. Greek and Roman not so much. Maybe because I got tired in school of keeping the twin gods for each culture separate. Was it Zeus, or Jupiter? Poseidon or Neptune? Bah!
Seems like there is a revival of the Norse gods going on.
Yep. Blame Thor.
(And the Avengers. And Marvel Comics. And Stan Lee...)
The Norse were my favourites as well. Their stories were darker, more dramatic.
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