Mythology

Iconian · 2024-04-08T00:32:52+00:00

Hopefully this is the right place to post this, but the question is fairly simple: did Greek or Roman mythology have a set of beliefs or predictions about the end of the world? The Norse have Ragnarok, and Christians have Armageddon, but I've never heard anything about Greek or Roman beliefs in this regard. Today though I ran across this Wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_Man#Hesiod's_Five_Ages

It talks about five ages of man presented in Greek mythology that I'd never heard of. The final age just sounds like it gets worse and worse.

Anyone know anything much about this?

Marginotions · 2020-10-05T12:37:40+00:00

Baby + reed basket + river = this trope

trope (literature) | wkpd

baby-in-a-basket trope found in mythical bios: Moses, Sargon, Karna, and Osiris (maybe more, say Romulus and Remus, Taliesin, Perseus, Ariadne?)

Which "baby found floating down the river in a basket" story was first ...king Sargon, or Moses? | yahu

Basket Cases: Moses, Sargon, and Karna (illustrated) 2013 | tringl

Moses, Sargon & Karna: Babies in Baskets 2017 | ftfld

It seems the concept of a child being abandoned by his mother, being dumped in a river, then found by a person connected to the local king and becoming a great leader is too good a plot to pass up. (a brilliant story trope to retro-elevate a low-born person to high status... a faux-bio) Similarly, King Nyatri Tsenpo, the first king of Tibet, and Oedipus, king of (Greek) Thebes.

Sargon vs Moses (Ministry, see library of more)

Moses in the Bulrushes | tvtrps

Child abandonment | wkpd

World Folklore: The Child Cast Adrift 2016

Infanticide