You've Got Issues
Is it not annoying when there is something that just cannot be explained by fact? Well the Greeks had those problems too. Their way of answering these queries was by making up stories using Gods, monsters, and things alike. The Greeks really focused on their troubles with human traits and morals that are being disregarded with everyday life. The author, Bernard Evslin, brings these stories back to life in his book. Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths, written by Bernard Evslin, portrays morality issues like greed, jealousy, and disobedience that people deal with everyday through out the history of the world.For instance, there are many times Bernard Evslin shows that people deal with the morale issue of greed today and as well as in the past. One story is that of "Midas", who loves gold so much, said that nobody but he and other kings should have gold. This greed leads him to curse Apollo, who comes down to give Midas the "gift" of whatever he touches, turns to gold. Another story that shows greed is in the story of "Prometheus". Greed is shown through this story by when the humans accept fire; they eventually want more and
more, which lead them to war, and killing amongst other things. For example, in the story of "Phaethon", Phaethon is very jealous of a kid in his village named Epaphus. All in all, within the stories of the book, Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myths, the Greeks portray morality issues like greed, jealousy, and disobedience that people deal with today, and everyday through out the history of the world. The myth of "Pandora" shows the morale issue of disobedience too. Another story, which helps to show that disobedience is an issue that people deal with, is the myth of "Orpheus". Another story is the story of "Midas". In a lot of their stories, they gave the gods human traits as well like in the myth of "Eros and Psyche" with Aphrodite showing jealousy. In this story, Zeus tells Prometheus not to give man fire, but Prometheus does and is punished fiercely by chaining him to a mountain and having his liver eaten out by two vultures everyday. Orpheus looses his wife, so he decides to go down into the underworld to get her back, but Hades tells him to walk out and do not look back to see if she is there; Orpheus walks all the way until the end where he looks back, and for not doing as Hades said he lost his wife. Greeks in the past were able to create stories that show human morality issues. Aphrodite is jealous of Psyche because some people say that Psyche is more beautiful than Aphrodite herself, so she sent her son Eros to make her fall in love with a mule, or something of that nature, but her plan back-fires because Eros accidentally cuts himself with the arrow of love and he falls in love with Psyche and refuses to make her fall in love with something so horrid. He angers the god Apollo, because he says that he despises Apollo the most because he is the god of gold, and Apollo cursed him by making whatever he touched turn into gold. First of all there is the story of "Prometheus". Greeks mainly created these stories to explain unexplainable events, but they also created these myths to help give people morals of what is right and what is wrong.
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