Thursday, September 18, 2008
Our Influences From The God's
It is clear that we all know that we have learned many things from passed cultures but it surprised me when I realized how much we had learned from the Greeks and these myths. We have learned about love hatred and many feelings as well as customs from these myths. By reading Olympic and Other Games I saw that we also inherited the practice of sport competitions. “IT seems not inappropriate to mention here the other celebrated national games of the Greeks. The first and most distinguished were the Olympic, founded, it was said, by Jupiter himself. They were celebrated at Olympia in Elis.” All that we have been doing is making improvements n the basis that the Greeks gave us. These myths are a way to transport a message to show us that we have not invented anything but just derived it from past inventions. Not only have we inherited customs but also the need for competition. Since the beginning mankind has felt a need to compete with nature and ourselves. “MINERVA was the goddess of wisdom, but on one occasion she did a very foolish thing; she entered into competition with Juno and Venus for the prize of beauty.” In a way competition can be good since it is pushing us to go harder in order to beat the other thing but many times mankind has over done it. What is important to learn is when you have reached your limit and to stop. If we can learn that we will be much better off.
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You are making valid and honest connections with the text. I'd just like to see some more develoment of your ideas. Also, see some of the gramamtical issues I've point out in other comments.
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