Hynad said:
A kid? That's how you argue with people here? Considering your behaviour on VGC, this is not surprising. The anthropomorphism present in the Greek myths is proof enough that super human beings appealed to the people. There's a need to put the human race as more than it is. That they believed those myths to be the truth or not has no bearing in all this. These gods and heroes are on most occasion anthropomorphized rendition of physical concepts and moral principles. They're role models, have super/divine powers, many have secret identities (often, for reasons similar to those of some superheroes), etc. The comparison between the two is innevitable. Even if both didn't originally serve the same purpose, they put to light the need for humans to aspire to something greater, to have someone to look up to, to inspire hope, to elevate the race as something more and make the impossible possible in apprence, etc. As for what you mentioned about Zeus being tricked by Hera, what's your point? Superman isn't perfect either. He gets tricked pretty often. In fact, he's an idealist and has a certain naivety because of that. Which leads him into situations where he gets tricked.
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I'm sorry, but please read any mythological story and you'll quickly realize that you cannot compare superheroes with Graeco-Roman mythological figures and gods. You do realize Zeus often rapes human beings right? People like to see their superheroes stumble and fail? Then explain why they almost always have a GOOD ending(again, exceptions prove the rule). Tragedies end in tragedy. Like Oidipous killing his father, marrying his mother and in the end going into exile while stabbing his eyes out. Did that happen to any of your superheroes? ;)
Zeus isn't an idealist, he's just as petty as an average human being.
Furthermore, religion basically requires that there is something above the human level. You cannot compare that with comic books, they don't need such a thing. Religion and comic books serve totally different purposes: one is to explain things people did not understand while the latter is for entertainment only. Name me one European super hero.
If there are any similarities between religion/mythology and comic books it's because comic books were inspired by them.
Nothing supports your position. It's quite clear to me you have not read any ancient tragedies or mythologies(modern renditions do not count). I've read plenty of comic books and most of them didn't involve superheroes. Because most of the comics I read were European. ;)
The only American comic books I've read are X-Men, Batman and Superman. And that's the reason I'm only talking about Superman because I don't know enough about the others.
Most Greek mythologies would shock American audiences if they were released in comic book form. They're radically different to Superhero comics. People had a very different mindset back then. A mindset that is incomprehensible for people ignorant in such matters. You're simply reading your own views in ancient source material. You're not trained to avoid anachronisms like I am. You're simply ignorant when it comes to ancient mythology(and that is not an insult, you just had a different education). For example, if both super heroes and ancient gods/mythological figures are antropomorphized renditions of physical concepts and moral principles(which is true to some extent) that would still mean they're radically different from each other. Ancient Greeks had very different moral principles than a modern American.
