THE BOOK OF
GREEKS
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE FIRST BOOK OF GREEKS
The romantic messes of ZeusThe Greeks get brilliant at science
Chapter 13
For example, they believed that the earth was flat,
2And was held up by a vTitan named wAtlas,
3xWho carried yit on his shoulders.
4They believed that all the trouble in the world was caused by a woman named zPandora,
5Who had a box.
6And wasn’t supposed to open it,
7So she opened it right up, of course,
8And let out all the atroubles of the world,
9Except that bhope didn’t fly out with the rest of the stuff,
10cBut stayed in the box,
11dFor some reason.
12They believed that echoes were caused by another myth,
13About a Greek named eNarcissus,
14fWho had an unhappy love affair with himself,
15gAnd drowned,
16But who was mourned for all eternity by a girl named hEcho,
17Who cried herself to nothing,
18Except her voice,
19Which explains why when we shout into a canyon, we hear our own voice come back,
20Or something like that.
21iThe Greeks had a lot of great myths like this that explained the way things work in the physical world,
22jWhich is why the Greeks also believed they were very good at science,
23And why we have science today.
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