Stories (also known as fables or myths), were passed down orally instead of through writing until the seventh century B.C. because the ancient Greeks thought that doing it this way, that these great poems grew, being added to and gradually shaped through the years.
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Without TV, they needed entertainment and loved to hear the strolling bard scome to town and sing the stories of their old heroes and their deeds, as in The Iliad and The Odyssey (each took three nights to perform).
The Ancient Greeks would tell their stories through speech, odes, poems, songs, plays, vase paintings, written on papaya, sculptures or friezes on temples, homes or sanctuaries.
An ient people tell stories for people to undstood how things hapen
Personally, I can tell the stories for both, but the Greeks came first, but then Rome conquered them, and basically copied them,
They did not tell us. But it was the highest place they could find in Greece.
Zeus did not tell stories, he was in them.
It could actually be both, since the two words are nearly the same in meaning. At the time the story of Odin was told, it was believed by the Norse people, who were a culture that had many gods and goddesses. Part of the worship of these deities was to tell stories of their amazing deeds: some of the stories (or folk-tales) were written, some were oral, but they were all important to the people who worshiped Odin and the other Norse deities. Today, we regard many of the ancient religions as mythological (Greek mythology, Roman mythology, Norse mythology, etc); and the stories of their gods and goddess are regarded as legends.