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They filled it with anthropomorphic gods and mind-bending tales of suffering and heroism -- lessons in how to survive and thrive in an extremely harsh environment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMyths of cosmology\u003c\/strong\u003e. . . .\u003cstrong\u003eGaia \u003c\/strong\u003eand \u003cstrong\u003eUranus\u003c\/strong\u003e, earth and sky, the primordial couple and first generation of gods; \u003cstrong\u003eZeus\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, \u003c\/strong\u003esupreme leader of the Olympian gods with his invincible masculine will to power; \u003cstrong\u003eDemeter\u003c\/strong\u003e, goddess of grain and agriculture, who continually sorrows; \u003cstrong\u003ePersephone\u003c\/strong\u003e, queen of the underworld, who repeatedly dies and returns; \u003cstrong\u003eAphrodite\u003c\/strong\u003e, goddess of love and sexual desire, who both starts and ends the \u003cstrong\u003eAge of Heroes\u003c\/strong\u003e; and more....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMyths of human evolution\u003c\/strong\u003e. . . .\u003cstrong\u003ePrometheus\u003c\/strong\u003e, who shoots fire through the imaginations of men; first woman \u003cstrong\u003ePandora\u003c\/strong\u003e, who releases the entire world's evils, except hope; ancient Greece's greatest hero \u003cstrong\u003eHeracles\u003c\/strong\u003e, who suffers, dies and becomes immortal; and more....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTrojan War myth\u003c\/strong\u003e....Brilliant but brutal \u003cstrong\u003eAchilles\u003c\/strong\u003e, whose rage nearly brings defeat to the Greeks; \u003cstrong\u003eHector\u003c\/strong\u003e, the greatest warrior on the battlefield, except for Achilles; Trojan \u003cstrong\u003eKing Priam\u003c\/strong\u003e, who puts to his lips the hand of the man who killed his son; wily \u003cstrong\u003eOdysseus\u003c\/strong\u003e, who outwits giants, witches, goddesses and cannibals to return home and claim his wife and throne; and more....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHouse of Atreus -- Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Orestes, Electra and Iphigenia\u003c\/strong\u003e....From the atrocities of this arch-dysfunctional family a new form of social justice emerges; and more....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlind \u003cstrong\u003eOedipus\u003c\/strong\u003e, who suffers from innocently fulfilling a prophecy of patricide and incest; \u003cstrong\u003eAntigone, \u003c\/strong\u003ewho dies for exactly following the gods' instructions in violation of the king's orders; and more....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Romans\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eAeneas\u003c\/strong\u003e, the Trojan prince who establishes Roman civilization; \u003cstrong\u003eRomulus\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ewho slays his twin \u003cstrong\u003eRemus\u003c\/strong\u003e, then founds Rome; and more....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnd 2500 years later we study them still. 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