Tomas
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Totally agree!
Aristotle was so far ahead of his era. That’s how people should be. We should learn from mistakes and good things.
Come on guys, every generation era of people has its own myths. Everything is imagined by human brain.
Ancient Greeks couldn’t explain weather through science, so they thought it was God-sent.
We still have this religious thing all over the world.
Only nature is real. Science is the next God and maybe in the far future, people will believe we were so idiot in believing to religion and call our modern religions outdated and “mythology”.
Do you know both Satyr and Silenus? In Greek mythology, they were creatures of the wild, part man and part beast, who in Classical times were closely associated with the god Dionysus. Their Italian counterparts were the Fauns (see Faunus). Satyrs and Sileni were at first represented as uncouth men, each with a horse’s tail and ears and an erect phallus. In the Hellenistic age they were represented as men having a goat’s legs and tail. The occurrence of two different names for the creatures has been explained by two rival theories: that Silenus was the Asian Greek and Satyr the mainland name for the same mythical being; or that the Sileni were part horse and the Satyrs part goat. Neither theory, however, fits all the examples in early art and literature. From the 5th century BC the name Silenus was applied to Dionysus’ foster father, which thus aided the gradual absorption of the Satyrs and Sileni into the Dionysiac cult.
