Essential Historical Themes: Belief Systems - How is the society guided by it's ideas of right and wrong?
Culture - What is shared about the way people act, express themselves or are organized?
To the Greeks, the gods were involved in daily life. Greeks loved to tell stories and tales that showed the true characteristics of the gods, even Showng that they could be cruel and selfish.
One very famous Greek Epic was Homer’s Odyssey. It is a collection of stories about the adventures King Odysseus and his men had while sailing home after the battle of Troy. Odysseus and his men faced many perils on their way home, and it took them ten long years to make the journey. In these ten long years, Odysseus and his men had quite a few adventures, and all of them had to do with mythical creatures!