Part one of term paper
Imagine this, you are in a world where there is many gods. Each god represents an aspect of nature ranging from fire to wisdom. That is what it was like for the ancient Greeks. They lived their lives in the way they thought the gods expected them to. Ancient mythology was not only a form of religion but it was also a form of science. Myt ...

Part two of term paper
... have in their gods"(Hamilton 13). If mortals did not obey the gods, they were punished. If a man were to say that he was better, in some way, than Zeus, then he would probably be struck down with a lightning bolt. People also had their way of worshipping the gods. They did this by erecting statues of a particular god or by going to the oracle, fortuneteller, of that god. On the other hand, ancient myths were not only accounts of religion, they were also explanations of natural phenomenon. Some ...