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A thousand-year-old oak tree grows on a hillside in the Kingdom of Phrygia. There is a Bodhi tree next to it, which is also a thousand years old. A low wall surrounded the two trees, and the spreading branches were hung with beautiful garlands of flowers. Not far away is a lake with herons and loons flying on the water. The scenery here is elegant and quiet.

Iathion and Dardanus were both sons of Zeus and the sea goddess Pleiades. They ruled the Aegean Sea island of Samoth. Iacion believed that he was the son of a god, so he dared to spy on a woman on the sacred mountain of Olympus, and pursued the goddess Demyrtle fanatically.

This book is a collection of ancient Greek stories about gods and heroes. It interweaves real life with fantasy, creating an all-encompassing and magnificent world for people, and vividly depicts the social life of the ancient Greeks. Many stories, such as Jason stealing the Golden Fleece, the hero Hercules' twelve feats, and the Trojan War, have become household stories. To this day, Greek mythology still remains in people's consciousness with its beautiful images and rich poetic flavor, and has been passed down as an eternal theme in literature and art.

In the 19th century, the German romantic poet Gustav Schwab devoted himself to excavating and sorting out ancient cultural heritage. With his rigorous and serious style and vivid words of great literary value, he organized and arranged the complicated Greek myths and legends based on Homer's two epics "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey", as well as other ancient Greek myths and legends and some literary works of Greek writers, and compiled this "Greek Mythology" with a relatively clear pedigree and a relatively complete storyline. Greek mythology has been handed down to this day for more than 3,000 years. Its distinctive characters and graceful and tortuous storylines are very popular among readers all over the world. It interweaves real life with fantasy, compiles stories of gods and heroic legends, reproduces the social outlook and spiritual life of the ancient Greeks in the form of romantic epics, praises the wisdom and creativity of the ancient Greek people, and has a profound and long-lasting impact on the development and prosperity of Western literature.

Myth is a product of human childhood and has an everlasting fascination. Greek mythology has been around for a long time because of its relatively complete system and unique literary charm. Greek mythology and biblical mythology have had a comprehensive and profound impact on the religion, philosophy, thought, customs, natural science, literature and art of the entire West and even mankind. When you come into contact with Western culture, you are bound to encounter allusions from Greek mythology. Almost every important classic Western literary work involves characters and plots from Greek mythology, and some are even directly based on Greek mythology. Today, although we don't have to "call everything Greek", a systematic understanding of Greek mythology is what every modern person needs.