Greek mythology - Gods, Heroes, Legends: To distinguish between myth, legend, and folktale can be useful, provided it is remembered that the Greeks themselves did not do so. Greek religious myths are concerned with gods or heroes in their more serious
the Greeks learned alphabetic writing from the Phoenicians, and presumably, along with the alphabet, they also adopted the then-current Phoenician practice with respect to the direction of text.And although Phoenician writing was originally inconsistent in direction, by the eighth century B.C. Phoenic...