Reading Page-Long Lives

I think that these stories are like a short set of circumstances told so as to instill sense of awe within the reader, to realize the way that the themes love, hatred, friendship, greed, and treason cause consequences in the characters’ lives. This is probably to make the reader have a greater experience so that they can learn from the characters’ mistakes to as to not do them themselves. These myths are a smart way to explain a teaching without boring the reader. They are entertaining as well as captivating in a sense that you experience the page-long lifetime of ancient humans. One example of a fate situation is when œdipus killed his father, Laius, and then married his mother, all without knowledge of his lineage.