Dioses de la Mitología Griega 1 - Documental

Gods of Greek mythology Athens Greece A city bustling with commerce and culture is also a city of faith, of Greek Orthodox faith, part of the great western arm of Christianity [Music] But here there was another world of which only fascinating [Music] fragments remain. Those who approach the past go in search of a world that was

equally bustling, equally pious. The world of the ancient Greeks still speaks to us through one of its legacies: Greek mythology. It was populated by many gods and goddesses, each with certain powers in the world and with a particular history [Music] for tens of thousands of years before biblical times. The tales of the gods and their activities

were passed down by storytellers. It is extremely difficult, but we try to imagine what those times were like. If I think back, I believe my favorite stories about the gods, the ones that made me think the most and impressed me the most, were how Athena was born from a headache of Zeus, how Apollo was a

wild youth and then became the god of order, music, and art, and how Poseidon, who was the protector of our capital and also in favor of peace, presiding over them all was Zeus, God of the sky, God of thunder. Zeus is a God of the sky, and you find yourself in Zeus's domain

when you are in the heart of nature. Zeus exerted some control over whether you had a good day or a bad one. There were two vials on the threshold, one containing good and the other evil, and to each man, Zeus served a portion of good and another of [Music] evil. There were Aphrodite and Artemis, two

sides of the same [Music] coin. Aphrodite, and as a goddess, is the Goddess of sexuality, of female sexuality; she is the Goddess of beauty and is related to many themes of fertility. On the other hand, we have Artemis, who is a very chaste virgin, and Apollo, who, like all the gods and goddesses of ancient Greece,