HOW HISTORY BECOMES MYTHOLOGY HOW HISTORY BECOMES MYTHOLOGY, PART TWO Jason, Perseus, Theseus, and Hercules were probably real people, however, the tales of their exploits have been exaggerated to make them seem larger than life — just as Paul Bunyan’s or Pecos Bill’s have been. The first commercial voyage to a strange country was a […]
HOW HISTORY BECOMES MYTHOLOGY When teaching Greek mythology, make the connections from the mythology to the true history which inspired the myths, to develop the biblical worldview in children concerning pagan mythologies. The story of Deucalion is the Greeks’ confused remembering of their ancestor Noah through his son Japtheth (Greek “Iapetos”, Roman “Jupiter”) and his […]
When your children ask where the fantastic legends of the Greeks came from, you can tell them that most legends have people and events in them that are exaggerated and impossible, but usually they begin with a grain of truth somewhere. For example, even though America is such a young country, we even have legends […]
We are having an interesting discussion on the historicity of legendary Atlantis on the new Homeschool History list. My belief is that the Atlantis legend is probably based in historical reality. Most myths and legends from various cultures can be traced back to an historical reality, although the myth itself can be greatly exaggerated. The […]
History is one of the core subjects of the classical curriculum, after Bible and Language studies – grammar, logic, and rhetoric – and is the only study, besides the knowledge of the words of God, which God commanded fathers to teach their children, and children to seek knowledge of from their fathers: Remember the days […]