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History without mythology
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We’ve gotten to the point where it just seems that we’re spending too much time learning about myths and not enough time learning REAL history. I’m even having a hard time distinguishing between what is real and what is myth (for example – when different Roman leaders sought out advice from mediums or what not – it seems the mediums were RIGHT in their predictions, there are never any stories about them being wrong). My girls, especially my oldest, are SUPER sensitive about the occult and really prefer not to learn about it. I’ve been limping along with it and trying to reinforce Biblical truth and the dangers of false teaching, but I’m at the point where I just wonder if it’s really THAT important for them to study it…. I think the Bible addresses false gods and mediums satifactorily and we really don’t need to go more in depth. (I’m speaking about MY family – I don’t care WHAT other families choose to study – just trying to give a background as to WHY I’m looking for something WITHOUT it or at least minimizes it and makes it VERY clear what is myth and what is real.) My oldest has just turned 9.
Thanks!
Rebekah
Are you in Roman history? Do you have a spine book you are using? I really don’t remember facing that much of the false prophecy coming true issues. We have liked Eva March Tappan’s histories.
Nebby
We are doing Roman history with Famous Men from Rome as the spine. It probably isn’t a LOT for most people, but having hyper sensitivity to it – I’d rather just leave it out. I’m thinking about just finding a Story of the World type book that doesn’t include the mythology. I see that Diana Waring has something, but it seemed textbooky to me and I don’t want that either.
Can you just stick to Biblical history for now? I don’t remember covering any of it in public school until high school.
Rebekah, I would save Famous Men for junior high and older. My dd is pretty sensitiveto them as well and that was when I changes to the books below.
Look at The Story of Rome by Mary Magregor or The Story of the Romans by H. A. Guerber. The first few chapters may briefly talk about the myths, but as stories, not real people/things. They focus on real events and people and any references to gods and mythology are very brief and minor. Guerber’s in particular was written to 1-6 grades, and Macgregor’s is a bit more detailed and very good as a read aloud spine for all ages.
I haven’t finished the Roman ones completely, but I did the Greeks. Their writing styles are the same for the Roman stories.
I’m not sure about the revised versions of the guides, but we’re using the guide for the Romans. We are not using the exact edition of Famous Men of Rome, we’re using the version we got from Yesterday’s Classics, so maybe that’s part of the problem. But I know that mythology and false gods were also part of the previous two studies we did – Ancient Egypt – Genesis and then the Joshua/Greeks… it’s just with the roman study, we’re doing MORE of Rome and less Bible than in the previous two studies and like I said, my girls are REALLY sensitive – so most families will probably never even notice, but I’d like to be more sensitive to their desire to leave it out.
My goal is for the younger grades to have minimal mythology and maximum Bible. Students in older grades learn about mythology so they will be familiar with the common-day references to various mythological figures, but I don’t want them to be steeped in all the details of mythology to the exclusion of Bible.
I am very happy with the new spines for Greece and Rome that we will be incorporating into the revised lesson plans: The Story of the Greeks and The Story of the Romans. We are recommending the Nothing New Press edited versions, which address mythology as akin to fairy tales and do a great job of confirming Biblical truth while giving the idea that the Greeks and Romans imagined and created gods in man’s image. There is an article in all three of our Ancients history handbooks that addresses our thoughts on mythology.
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