Roman Myths And Legends

Myths and legends are comprised of many things that over time have come to develop because of stories, natural disasters and the stuff that can not be explained by normal means. Said legends and myths are usually told differently depending on what region the story comes from since the characters, gods and other factors might have different representation or meaning in the region the factors derive from or alternate in. The Greek and Roman worlds during their time where in their prime when it came to structure of society and other numerous things that made up these civilizations in there point in time. Myths and legend as a whole were the reason concepts like gender, class, politics and religion were affected or changed in the two worlds of

One of the ways that group identity was shaped in the Greek and Roman worlds was the way gender was looked at in a positive or negative way. In Greek society the concept of male vs. female was one that were most of the concepts positive aspects was geared towards males while on the opposite it could be said most of the negative aspects was geared towards females. There came the time were all Greek males had to come of age and were supposed to initiate a right of path in which they left their cities in order to practice military procedure and hone their hunting skills, doing so it showed their efforts as warriors because they learned things like self control and what not. This also meant that they had a large importance in civilization as with coming of age they were allowed to vote and speak in

Women identity for most of history is looked at as only being maternal and responsible for the things that happen within the home, basically women are overlooked and have no voice at all when it came to anything. But women identity was also complex in that women in myths were said to not only be depicted as the ideal Greek woman but also to be sneaky, cunning, selfish and of having a sexual appetite. Some myths and figures that showed women identity as complex were talked about in myths about Pandora, the Erinyes, the nymphs and other myths involving Greek female gods or figure and their deceitful ways. The myth about Pandora shows her the first woman and how she released evils into the world, showing the first ever account of woman lead to negative outcomes as evils were introduced to the world. The Erinyes and nymphs myths show the shady side of woman identity as they were mythical figures that would trick and punish males by some way of deceit, this shows that women female appeals was a big factor of myths and the negativity associated with women in the Greek