... has no physical text like the Bible in Catholicism or the Quran in Muslim. Instead similar to the beginning of our Catholic religion the stories, myths and legends were passed on orally. Some stories were used to write poems which became great literature. The poet Homer's 8th-century BC epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, for example, tell the story of the (mythical) Trojan War as a divine conflict as well as a ... (people who died at sea.) Paying customers however didn't have the greatest after death experience ether, they were grey, their souls were grey and they were Only shadows of ...

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... , father of tragic drama Aeschylus is the earliest of the three great Greek tragic dramatists (the others are Sophocles and Euripides). His plays are marked by a strong moral sence, demonstrating that suffering is the inevitable consequence of sin, until the wrong doing has been expiated. Aeschylus enriched the drama with his technical innovations. He introduced a second actor where only one and a chorus had been used previously, making possible the conflict of wills and ideas that ... and The Persians. Aristophanes, the greatest of comic playwrights Aristophanes introduced the coarse ty...

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