Knowledge skills for Mythology

[jason taylor]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

And in fact a most of what we "know" about Greco-Roman mythology comes from poets and playwrights not the priests and would often have been at odds with what priests would have taught. It's like learning about Christianity from Hollywood movies.

Wouldn't the priests have kept a lot of stuff to themselves? For instance Delphi aside from practice at hedging their predictions either had direct contact with the Other World, or a very good intelligence service. Or both. It does not really matter much except as far as the setting for your game. And a lot of stuff is just routine: no one cares just how Antiochous Epiphanes went about slaughtering a pig in the wrong temple.