Mythology

Term Paper Title	Mythology
# of Words	487
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.95

Mythology

Greek Mythology


     Mythology is a way that the ancient societies explained why things are the way they are and how they came to being.  Two ancient societies are infamous for their mythology.  These societies are Greece and Rome.  Great authors were made be the mythological works they wrote.  Homer was a famous author who is best known for his epics.  It is from these epics that most of the gods and actual myths well known.  I am writing of two of these gods in particular, Saturn and Dionsysus.

     The first god that I would like to focus on is Saturn.  Saturn was the god of agriculture to both the Roman and Greek.  He was, however, known to the Greeks as a different name.  His name was Cronus.  He had all of the same qualities and powers that Saturn did.  This is found to be true very often in mythology.  In the time of mythology, cultures would simply borrow another culture's gods and change their names.  He was the husband of Ops and the father of Zeus, Jupiter, Hestia, Demeter, Posiedon, Hades, Pluto, and Hera.   Saturn was the ruler of the gods.  He found out that his son, Zeus, would be more powerful than himself, thus threatening his position.  In effect, Saturn ate all of his children as soon as his wife conceived them.  Thus, killing all chances of his rule being taken away.  His wife tricked him and their son, Zeus, was born, and took the throne that was rightfull...

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