MAJOR DEITIES OF THE SEA. Became established as the mighty god of the seas. The stream of Ocean, and his mate Tethys, titans who produced thousands of children, the Oceanids. A pre-Olympian deity who became an attendant or son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, was an old man of the sea who could foretell the future and could also change his shape at will.

Remains a pioneering monument in its attempts to link myth with ritual. Frazer believed that primitive man starts out with a belief in magical laws; later, when man begins to lose faith in magic, he invents myths about gods and claims that his formerly magical rituals are religious rituals intended to appease the gods. Vladimir Propp, a Russian folklorist, developed the structuralist approa.

Agamemnon and Achilles clash over the return of Chryseis to her father in order to appease Apollo and stop the plague. Agamemnon takes Briseis from Achilles, who withdraws from the fighting.

Relation between Greek Myth and Religion. The most obvious remnants of Greek religion may be Gree.