Greek bronze age mythology
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Etiological myths, furthermore, served to explain why certain institutions or practices existed for instance, the tragic trilogy Oresteia of the Athenian poet Aeschylus tells the etiological myth for the establishment of the Athenian murder courts in the Classical period. Each Greek city-state, in particular, had a foundation myth describing its origins as well as its own patron gods and goddesses. For instance, Gilgamesh, the hero of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, was a real king of Uruk, yet he also became the hero of the epic. Rather, gods and myths were part of the everyday life, and historical events could become subsumed by myths just as easily as myths could become a part of history. And yet, the idea that the two are opposites would have seemed baffling to a typical resident of the ancient Mediterranean world. History, on the other hand, refers to actual events that involved real people. After all, mythology refers to stories that are clearly false, of long-forgotten gods and heroes and their miraculous feats. The terms “mythology” and “history” may seem, by modern definitions, to be antithetical.