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Myth in Ancient Greece Philosophy

to how it moves from the imagination and divine beliefs with rational ability.

Today, when we comment on the Greeks, immediately we would have to refer to its main features: the stories of Homer, the great heroes, the first philosophers, the culture of the polis, the Oedipus complex, the Aristocracy and why not, its mythology.

Now, immersed in what the mythical wealth of ancient Greece, we have to describe the religious environment that captivated and admired the early Greek settlers. The first thing we do is, take an initial view of the most important events of this culture:

To do this, read the following historical summary analysis that made the page educar.org In this way, we will have a more open and industrious of the most important events in the different periods of Greek.

Religious The Greek environment, and the manifold problems

Greece, made up of hundreds of villages, was full of different mythologies and religious outlooks. All we can say is valid so it was a culture in itself political. In any case, whether textual and historical , mentions another feature distinct from the polytheistic (Monotheism). Very different is the Semitic culture, contemporary, preached the idea of \u200b\u200bone God.

This issue, multi-religious and conceptional of many gods, is unified in Homer's classic novels ( the Iliad and the Odyssey ) For convenience or agreement of all peoples. Hence was born in some villages, some skepticism, not to believe or doubt the existence of a god.

Greek atmosphere was this that influenced that would step from myth to logos. Triggers many problems and situations that could not in any case be resolved by a "god or gods" of war or peace.

also promoted various historical facts, in this culture mythical-but-sublime, it would open to rational thought, no longer stay with the mere explanations theogonic perhaps, ever, make sense, when to review and analyze actual situations in question.

So the future and the idea of \u200b\u200b no longer clinging to divine concepts, but real issues, rational, non-contradictory, the here and now, it was a destination , a future that is built is, in short, another ideological activity promoted by the Rationality.

Brief historical overview.

Taken from the free encyclopedia WikiPedia Historic Environment

Greek.

"pre-Hellenic period

From the Paleolithic is evidenced by the presence of man in ( 3200 BC to 2000 BC ) and the Asian in Asia Minor.

But it was on the island of Crete where he developed the most advanced civilization, the Cretan or Minoan . During its heyday (Middle Minoan period, around 1950 BC to 1550 BC), the built palaces of Knossos , Phaistos and Hagia Triada . On the other hand, the Achaeans protohelenos or settled in Argos, where they built the fortresses of Tiryns and Mycenae , which led to the Mycenaean name given to their high civilization, assimilation of culture Minoan. By 1550 BC began a swing on both sides of the Aegean culminating in the conquest of Crete and expedition against Troy. In the early twelfth century BC the Dorians invaded continental Greece, causing the migration of the Achaeans the Peloponnese , the Ionians to Attica, Euboea and Cyclades, and the Aeolian to Thessaly and Boeotia . That invasion increased the migration of Greek settlers to the coast of Asia Minor and caused the fragmentation of Greece in a city-state (polis ).

Greek Middle Ages

Towards eighth century BC began to build the main Greek city-states, the head of which had King with a military and religious powers, ruling advised by a council of elders. However, within the Greek society of the time, typically rural, there were large landowners, descendants of the most powerful in the war , which were imposed on the smallholders and replaced the monarchy by aristocratic power. Since then the directors and the judges were, in fact, chosen only among the nobility.

soil Poverty and population growth forced the Greeks to embark on the establishment of colonies throughout the Mediterranean area of \u200b\u200b , Which led to the birth of an active trade and the development of a thriving industry in the metropolis. From the seventh century BC commercial and industrial activity, more and more important, led to the emergence of a middle class eager to take part in city government. Meanwhile, the situation of the small farmer was doubly compounded: first it was impossible to compete with agricultural products imported from other countries by traders and other financial weakness made him enter, with increasing dependence on orbit of the nobility. In these times of social and political upheaval emerged in most cities Greek lawmakers and tyrants, men of strong character, usually from the aristocracy, who seized power and ruled with the support of the middle class and the people, who saw in them the much desired social reformers. "

Thus, it is assumed that the Greek culture in its various manifestations of political, social, artistic and reconnects freely promotes this step: In the basic conception of myth the design complex, but rational, what Logos is ( λóγος) .

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