The creation of man is a story of "the five races" in which according to Hesiod, the five human races were created one after the extinction of the last by the gods. ... The same would happen for those whose body is never recovered (people who died at sea.) ... Greek Mythology Timeline Greek Mythology is so old and humans didn't write anything down, like Christianity it was an oral tradition of stories, drama, and hymns. ... Because Greek mythology is so old we can't know for sure when the lliad was first written but we think it's somewhere between centuries 8-12 BCE. ...

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Though he is constantly associated with disease as the "striker from afar ", Apollo is also closely related to healing because of his ability to perform the duties of a civilization's medicine man. ... His final decision was made at Delphi, at Mount Parnassus near the Corinthian Gulf: "This is the place where I plan to build my glorious temple, an oracular shrine, to which mankind may forever bring my unblemished offerings from rich Peloponnesus from Europe, and from the wave-washed islands around in the sea. " The name comes from "delphus ", the Greek word for "womb. " Unfortunately, th...

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