RE: Damned Catholics
December 3, 2018 at 12:32 pm
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2018 at 12:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 3, 2018 at 12:28 pm)Cherub786 Wrote:(December 3, 2018 at 12:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: But I bet you think Zeus was a myth, right? Your boy is "special" though.
You know any legit historians that say Zeus was a historical person?
There used to be (kindof still are), won't surprise you to find that they were greeks, I bet. The notion that our myths and legends or mythical or legendary heroes have a historical basis is actually named after a mythographer that proposed this centuries back. Euhemerus. Euhemerism.
Quote:Euhemerus argued that Zeus was a mortal king who died on Crete, and that his tomb could still be found there with the inscription bearing his name.[9] This claim however did not originate with Euhemerus, as the general sentiment of Crete during the time of Epimenides of Knossos (c. 600 BC) was that Zeus was buried somewhere in Crete. For this reason, the Cretans were often considered atheists, and Epimenides called them all liars (see Epimenides paradox). Callimachus, an opponent of Euhemerus' views on mythology, argued that Zeus' Cretan tomb was fabricated, and that he was eternal:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euhemerism
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