2/6 - Hesiod Writing Assignment

1. What do you think this myth tells about the ancient Greeks? What values did they have? Why would a story like this develop?

Well, first off they were very... imaginitive. But what it tells is that the ancient Greeks is that were inquizitive. If there was something that they didnt understand, they would think then create, in our case, something fake to explain the unexplained. Most of the stories that were devoloped come off of the main stories. But still, most of the main stories are very strange. The reason why they would be created would be because the people needed something. What they needed were aspirations, they needed something to believe in. Like what I was saying in class the other day that I came up with. If you dont have dreams, I hate to say this but you dont really have anything to live for. Everybody has dreams, everybody works towards something. That is what the ancient greeks were doing, having dreams, also they needed something to explain everthing, the gods were a convient way to explain them.