Moral Teachins in Ancient Greek Mythology

Why Be Moral? Morals are simply enough a set of norms, the rules of behavior accepted in a society on the concepts of good and evil. Morality establishes the boundaries between dishonor and honor, cruelty and mercy. Morality manifests itself in the comprehension of the opposite of goodness and badness. Goodness is understood as the most important personal and social value and the correlates with person's desire to maintain and achieve moral perfection.

Good is the pursuit of a harmonious wholeness both in relations between people, and in the inner world of the individuals. If good is constructive, then evil is all that destroys interpersonal ties and breaks down the inner world of man. To develop the human good morals, we need to start from childhood. Caring parents always explain to their child the difference between good and bad deeds. And the grown man, in his whole life, will know that the murder, arrogance, and greedy are associated with negative phenomena, and nobility and mercy are classified as positive personal qualities. The first seeds of morality, parents plant in their children through myths. Sometimes even simple myth can do more than just any discussion about good or bad.

One of the morality myths that I liked it is the ancient Greek myth of King Midas, who was rich enough, but wanted more. One day his wish came true with the help of ancient Greek God. Everything would had been well, but the problem was that when Midas tried to eat lunch or take a drink, his food also turned into gold, which the king did not like. This myth not only contains an interesting morality, but also a pretty idiom widely used by today's people, “Greedy, like King Midas. ” In addition, the myth contains many phrases worthy of attention. Let's imagine. Sometimes you can have too much good things. Everyone knows the situation when we are using something too much, like the dosage is too high, allergies develop.

Thus, the moral of this myth is the creation of a balance, all in moderation. Here I suddenly remembered what did say Oscar Wilde, “Everything in moderation, including moderation. ” The idiom that came from this myth means someone easily manages to make money or create a successful, financially meaningful business or projects. In general, we are talking about all those people who make money from the 'air. ' But afterwards, the price that they pay is high, like in this myth the price was the life of the King Midas daughter.

Another morality myth that I also like is The myth of Daedalus and Icarus. The ancient Greek legend of Father Daedalus and his son Icarus, which became a symbol for all those who are 'intoxicated' by success, and consequently, underestimate the real state of the facts. The expression 'The flight of Icarus' became a symbol of risky daring. All of us, when we hear the name of Icarus, we are faced with the image of a man who boldly goes to success, regardless of everything, despite the risks, he in his quest rises above and above.

The myth about Daedalus and Icarus warns humanity against despicable actions. Insufficient justice among people does not mean that the perpetrator will not be punished. For their actions, sooner or later, they may pay with their life. Already at that time a man strove to conquer the sky, probably for this reason, it was the invention of the wings that became an outstanding event. But this human dream to fly has collapsed, because the wings that allowed to fly a man like a bird, caused a terrible tragedy. The flight of the father and son, ended tragically. My grandmother had a good expression here, she said, ' Those who born to crawl cannot fly. ' I think God everything planted in that way what we have now. The fighting with God will be ended up you will be the only loser.

In conclusion I would say the one important thing for us is to always try to choose what's right, not only for ourselves, but for humanity itself. So, is this a guide in which we will perfectly choose what's right all the time? No, this just a method which I personally believe is what will bring us to our potential of judging between good and bad, and with these morals no one will be hurt.