It was created by great poets. ◦ The first written record of Greece is the Iliad. ◦ The Iliad is , or contains the oldest Greek literature; and it is written in a rich and subtle and beautiful language. ◦ We learn what early Greeks were like. ◦ The Greeks made their gods in their own image. ◦ Myths are early science, the result of men’s first trying to explain what they saw around them