Question:“On the storybooks of this temple”
On the storybooks of this temple
You ask for the stories of this temple. Myth is not how the ancients explained the world. It is how they bore what was not yet explained.
Three descend. Do not memorize the genealogy first. Read one story to the end and the names will follow.
- Theogony, HesiodFrom Chaos to Zeus, the first book to set down the order in which the gods were born.
- The Odyssey, HomerOne road home with the whole of myth tangled in it.
- The Greek Myths, Robert GravesThe scattered stories gathered in one volume, with their sources.
Zeus released two eagles from the ends of the earth, and they met at Delphi.