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    Greek Mythology: Captivating Stories of the Ancient Olympians and Titans: Heroes and Gods, Ancient Myths
    Greek Mythology: Captivating Stories of the Ancient Olympians and Titans: Heroes and Gods, Ancient Myths
    Greek Mythology: Captivating Stories of the Ancient Olympians and Titans: Heroes and Gods, Ancient Myths
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    Greek Mythology: Captivating Stories of the Ancient Olympians and Titans: Heroes and Gods, Ancient Myths

    By Ross Tanner

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    Captivating Stories of the Ancient Olympians and Titans


    Did you know that Zeus loved many women, both goddesses and mortals?

    Did you know that he turned himself into golden rain for one damsel who was locked away in a tower, and turned himself into a swan for another beauty?

    Did you know that he kidnapped one young princess which led to her brother founding the city of Thebes?

    And did you know that, to protect his own power, Zeus swallowed his first wife, just as Cronus had swallowed his own children in a previous age?

    Greek myth is full of fascinating tales of Titans and Olympian gods. Some of it makes us wonder if there might be some hint of truth behind those stories, no matter how outrageous they may sound. What parts of those stories were merely symbolic and what parts were literal?

    This book contains a brief, but unconventional look at the Titans and Olympian gods of Greek mythology. Brief, because a thorough treatment of these legendary super beings could take thousands of pages. Unconventional, because digging for truth is far more interesting than reciting old stories which have little relevance to us today. Attempting to reveal some semblance of truth brings the stories to life. It gives them relevance to our modern world. Here, we will look at many of the more fascinating stories which kept the Greek mortals entertained for hundreds of years. After all, they didn’t have iPhones and computer tablets.

    Within this book's pages, you'll find the answers to these questions and more. Just some of the questions and topics covered include

    • The Nature of Myth
    • Primordial Beings and Titans
    • Creation of the Universe
    • Birth of the Titans
    • Stories of a Primordial Universe
    • Children of Cronus and Rhea
    • Trouble in Heaven
    • Titans vs. Gods
    • New Pecking Order
    • Prometheus and the Humans
    • Zeus and His Ladies
    • More Fun from Olympus
    • Metis and Athena
    • Cecrops and Dragons

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRoss Tanner
    Release dateMay 18, 2017
    ISBN9781386596974
    Greek Mythology: Captivating Stories of the Ancient Olympians and Titans: Heroes and Gods, Ancient Myths

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      Greek Mythology - Ross Tanner

      Introduction—The Nature of Myth

      Did you know that Zeus loved many women, both goddesses and mortals? Did you know that he turned himself into golden rain for one damsel who was locked away in a tower, and turned himself into a swan for another beauty? Did you know that he kidnapped one young princess, which led to her brother founding the city of Thebes? And did you know that, to protect his own power, Zeus swallowed his first wife, just as Cronus had swallowed his own children in a previous age?

      Greek myth is full of fascinating tales of Titans and Olympian gods. Some of it makes us wonder if there might be some hint of truth behind those stories, no matter how outrageous they may sound. What parts of those stories were merely symbolic and what parts were literal?

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      Here, we will look at many of the more fascinating stories which kept the Greek mortals entertained for hundreds of years. After all, they didn’t have iPhones and computer tablets.

      But first, what is myth, and where does it come from?

      In today’s world, we have many sources of mythology. Movies and science fiction authors provide us with a rich foundation of modern myth. But we also have government agencies which create myths in order to manipulate public opinion. The CIA’s Operation Mockingbird provides us a perfect example of this. One White House staffer during Ronald Reagan’s presidency told of a meeting the new president had with then CIA director William Casey in February 1981, just after the presidential inauguration. When asked what the CIA director thought the goal of the agency should be, Casey told his president, We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.

      Today’s world also has a new flavor of myth, called the urban legend, or contemporary legend. Like the writings of science fiction authors, many of these legends are the creations of individuals with active imaginations, sometimes used to explain macabre events which happened to a friend of a friend.

      Ancient world myths, however, may well have more basis in fact than in creative imagination. This is according to researcher and writer, Rod Martin, Jr. Though admittedly based on a great deal of speculation, Martin points out examples and gives some evidence to support his thesis.

      Any proposed explanation is only as good as its ability to help us make progress in understanding a topic, to help us create a cohesive and plausible back-story, and to help us predict what archaeologists might find in the future. For example, Martin has spent more than a decade researching Plato’s myth of Atlantis and has discovered a strong correlation between that story and the myth of Athena. We will explore this link in Part 4 of the book, Atlantis Connection.

      Martin explains it this way: "We know that there are many unknowns in human prehistory. It would be easy to dismiss all myth as pure fantasy. But look at the fact that primitive man at the end of the last glacial period of the current Ice Age did not have a very sophisticated picture of life and human potential. For many more modern concepts, the vocabulary was most assuredly missing. For instance, a primitive

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