Editing Greek Mythology (section)

==Classical Mythology?==
A common alternative name for Greek Mythology, after "Greco-Roman Mythology", is "Classical Mythology". That's because Greco-Roman Mythology is the one ancient pre-Christian religion that survived best during the rise of the Christian powers of Europe during the [[Dark Age]]. Whilst the Christians of the Roman Empire had stamped out the political powers once held by the pagan priesthoods, the lore of Rome and through it Greece was still very strongly baked into Roman culture, and it resisted the erasure that other pagan cultures like the various [[Celt]]ic peoples of Europe or the [[Viking]]s would experience. Plus, the Greeks and the Romans ''wrote shit down'', so there were lots and lots and we mean '''lots''' of texts written by pagan Greeks and Romans rather than all of the responsibility for passing on that lore being instead left to Christian monks who had... shall we say a certain bias about what they actually wrote down? That helped a lot in making sure there Greco-Roman myths and tales were never lost like the Celtic lores would be.

Enter the [[Renaissance]], when the newly emerging non-Christian Monk-based scholarly class looked to these ancient Greek and Roman texts (often copies of copies traded over from the Islamic world), and basically went "wow, that's really neat!" Add to it the huge importance that being able to trace their roots back to the Roman Empire was given by the early Christian monarchies of Europe and the end result was that Greek and Roman Mythology experienced a resurgence of popularity throughout Europe, often being romanticised in all sorts of ways

This meant in turn that, until the mid-1900s or so, the Greek and Roman Mythologies were the only Pre-Christian Mythology that European students had to study, so they became associated heavily with the lost "golden age" of the [[Classical Period]].

Now, bear this in mind; ''Classical Mythology is no way how the Greek saw their own mythology''. Matter of fact, every single city/tribe/civilization saw their own stories and creation myths differently. The remnants of those stories that were compiled and translated during the Dark Age are merely compilations and reinterpretations made to suit our modern view of mythology and story-writing. Also, thanks to a concept called "Syncretism", we are perhaps missing out on gods, heroes or creatures because they were reappropriated by other cultures. Zeus could be fifteen different gods fused into one, explaining in due parts his massive body of work, but also his very fucked up behavior. And the same goes for other gods.

Everything explained in this here article is the "time-line" or great myths that the Classical revisionist period created. So take all of this with a grain of salt. Do yourself a favor and search the origins of myths. This is worth your time, we swear.