Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Greek mythology" in English language version.
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Did the Greeks believe in their mythology? The answer is difficult, for 'believe' means so many things. Not everyone believed that Minos, after his death, continued being a judge in Hell or that Theseus fought the Minotaur, and they knew that poets 'lie' [...] [I]n the minds of the Greeks, Theseus had, nonetheless, existed. [...] Why did the Greeks go to the trouble of wishing to separate the wheat from the chaff in myth [...]? We see the extent of the problem when we realize that this attitude toward myth lasted for over two millennia.