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I completely misread this as > Greeks love naturalistic explanations of mythological ideas, however far fetched. And wonder whether this is also broadly, hist
by mherdeg 4y ago
I completely misread this as
> Greeks love naturalistic explanations of mythological ideas, however far fetched.
And wonder whether this is also broadly, historically true?
- goto11 4y agoThe Greek philosopher Euhemerus believed that Gods has originated as humans who was worshiped after their death. So the naturalistic explanations existed, although I don't know how widely accepted they were.
- jrumbut 4y agoThere seems to have been Greeks like Thucydides who did like that and Greeks like Herodotus who enjoyed the opposite (supernatural explanations of the natural), I wouldn't know enough to make a general claim.