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Anonymous 11/6/2025, 11:08:44 AM No.24859706 [Report] >>24859722 >>24859739 >>24860093 >>24860440 >>24860512
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Should you read the Greek gods as characters or personifcation?
Anonymous 11/6/2025, 11:21:33 AM No.24859722 [Report] >>24859861 >>24860093
>>24859706 (OP)
Homer genuinely believed that they exist.
Anonymous 11/6/2025, 11:44:59 AM No.24859739 [Report] >>24859861
>>24859706 (OP)
As metaphors
Anonymous 11/6/2025, 1:25:38 PM No.24859861 [Report]
>>24859739
See>>24859722
Anonymous 11/6/2025, 4:29:57 PM No.24860093 [Report]
>>24859706 (OP)
As both. The funny thing about greek mythology is that you are being told two stories at the same time. One superficial and the other deeper.
>>24859722
Did you meet the man? As far as I know we have nothing from him except his poems and maybe some hymns. If he believed in the gods, then he was lying through all his work, since of course he didn't know how the gods acted in a war hundreds of years ago.
Anonymous 11/6/2025, 7:36:29 PM No.24860440 [Report]
>>24859706 (OP)
Both.
Anonymous 11/6/2025, 8:11:05 PM No.24860512 [Report]
>>24859706 (OP)
You are supposed to read them as if you genuinely believe in them. We don't know whether Homer did, but the people who listened to the poems certainly did.