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Originally Posted by Feng Lengshun
Greece doesn't really have a clear morality. The morality that they only have are "The strong rules," "Don't be prideful," and "Don't make the Gods angry." Which is basically the Darwinian morality, with an extra "Don't piss off anyone stronger than you" added into it.
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at least this is wrong for sure. In the book " la saggezza dei miti greci" from luc Ferry it clearly explains that in short you don't have to see the gods as beings with emotions. What they represent is the harmony and equilibrium and all the punishments they give to humans and not humansis because they go against this harmony itself.When in one of the stories king Mida was punished cause he choose the satyr's music(chaos) over apollo(harmony) it is for this reason that Apollo got angry. Furthermore to have a real harmony a little of chaos is needed and that is the reason Dionisio is one of the gods (he represents the chaos element) and why Gea gave birth to typhoon (to have zeus defeat the chaos element).