The poet Homer's 8th-century BC epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, for example, tell the story of the (mythical) Trojan War as a divine conflict as well as a human one. ... 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, d...

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