HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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Myths have all of the following EXCEPT:
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teach an important lesson like warming against being too proud.
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make sense of natural phenomena like earthquakes
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directions on how to tend a household
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told stories about monumental events like the creation of human beings
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -A myth is a story that’s told again and again and serves to explain why something is the way it is. A creation myth, for example, is a story that tells how the world came into being. You may have studied Greek or Roman myths in which gods and goddesses wage war and play tricks on each other.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Three Types of Myths: Aetiological, Historical, and Psychological.
Detailed explanation-3: -myth, a symbolic narrative, usually of unknown origin and at least partly traditional, that ostensibly relates actual events and that is especially associated with religious belief. It is distinguished from symbolic behaviour (cult, ritual) and symbolic places or objects (temples, icons).
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