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i believe that "monsters" are important to greek mythology because the monsters represent what people fear the most. and the gods represent how to overcome those fears. it was to help the ancient Greeks explain things that, maybe, they didnt understand or didnt know how to cope with.

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because it was they're way of explaining natural outcomes

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