The Role Of Superstition In Ancient Greece

“Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.” Humans learn about different ancient civilizations that existed at different times, fought different wars, had different cultures and philosopher’s, and the civilizations ceased to exist in different ways but one of the most popular, famous, and largest civilizations was Ancient Greece. Ancient Greece is one of the world’s most powerful empire that ever existed so it’s important to learn about its religion, its most famous event, their beliefs and superstitions, and how this civilization got doomed.

Greeks used to think that everything- whether it was pleasant or not-was a result from the gods they believed in. These

Some of these crazy superstitions are: the evil eye, hobgoblins, black cats, and even mirrors. The evil eye is an old superstition in which a person catches bad luck from someone’s envy and jealousy towards them. The Black Cat is a superstition in which belief says that if someone see’s a black cat then that causes bad luck for a whole day. The mirror superstition is a superstition in which if a mirror breaks then you have bad luck for 7 years.

Every great civilization must come to an end and ancient Greece had a dramatic end. Constant war and conflict between Greek’s states and neighbors caused the country to weaken. Another important reason that made ancient Greece weak is that the country’s colonies weren’t loyal to Greece so they waited for the first moment to strike Greece. While Greece was growing weaker, its neighbors were growing stronger by the day so they tried to extend their empire’s by conquering Greece. Then finally, Ancient Greece’s fate was sealed by Philip of Macedonia year 338