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jets99
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I LOVE greek mythology if any one else does here is a place to talk about it.

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deathopper
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I love it too. But I don't know any stories. Whenever we do grec mythology in school we don't really read any mythology oddly enough. But this year were watching Helen Of Troy and I think a movie for the Odyssy. Have any mythology sites?

thebluerabbit
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i like it too but like deathopper i know onlly a few stories. unfortunately for me there is no class that has anything to do with that

johnmerz
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Greek Mythology is interesting, but I don't really care about it. No offense.

Dragonblaze052
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I used to be real deep into Greek mythology, but I read all of it and got bored with it. Now I don't know much anymore.

jacobo101
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i know about greek mytholigy and i love it

GlimmeringStars
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I used to enjoy reading Greek myth, I haven't really been interested in it much for about five or six years, so I forgot most of the stuff I've known but the stories were really good when I read them but if I read back over them I'm not sure if I'd get a feel for them.

farrowking37
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Greek mythology is interesting, and i love the epic about Odysseus, but unfortunately, it has lost luster over the years.

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Last year we did a lot on Greek Mythology so we read a lot of storries to give us background info on the book we were going to read.

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My brother is a total Greek Mythology buff. Mostly from reading Edith Hamilton's "Mythology".

Because of him, I know a lot about it, but not as much as him.

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I'm not really into Greek Mythology but I've read a few books about it that were alright. They're not really my type of books though but it is fairly interesting.

Sheppard007
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Greek Mythology is amazing, and by reading Percy Jackson books, I feel like I know even more!

Noddles404
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Greek Mythology is nothing compared to Norse.

iMogwai
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Greek Mythology is nothing compared to Norse.


Of course it isn't. Norse mythology has an immortal pig. How can you beat that?

Greek mythology is pretty creepy, TBH. I read about it in high school. A lot of their stories involve ****, kidnapping, murder, infidelity, etc. For example, Zeus cheated on his wife pretty much every opportunity he got, and had a whole bunch of illegitimate kids. Basically, Greek mythology has the most unethical and immoral deities out there.
CommanderDude7
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Zeus cheated on his wife pretty much every opportunity he got, and had a whole bunch of illegitimate kids

I see that as providing demi-gods to help out humanity.
iMogwai
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I see that as providing demi-gods to help out humanity.


Nah, he was just horny. And married, for that matter.

Also, here's a wikipedia quote from the Zeus Miscellany
Zeus punished Hera by having her hung upside down from the sky when she attempted to drown Heracles in a storm.


The reason why she tried to drown Heracles was because he was Zeus' illegitimate son. So basically, Zeus cheated on her all the time, and she vented her anger on the offspring.

Also, another funny thing I found in the miscellany:

When Hera gave birth to Hephaestus, Zeus threw him off the top of Mount Olympus because of his repulsive appearance.
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