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In philosophical terms, time before the age of Socrates is known as Pre-Socratic. Before philosophy there was Mythology. Mythology is where everyone found the answers to life’s questions. Mythology was a sort of religion. The only answers it supplied were based on the supernatural gods. “The sea is cold today because Poseidon wanted to make it that way.” Every question was basically answered in the same fashion: “because of the gods,” and for several …

…beginnings, questions about ends, questions about existence, questions about change, and the war of the opposites are what plagued these men, and they wouldn’t accept the traditional mythological answer “because of the gods.” They were the bold few, who probably suffered criticism from most other people, because most people were not only religious (and atheism was unheard of), but also they all shared the same religion in Greece: that on which mythology is based.