How The Greek Myth Of Ancient Greece Shows Practicality?

The Greek myth ¨Athenes City,¨ shows practicality. Practicality means ¨adapted or designed for usefulness¨. In the story, Poseidon and Athene hold a contest to see who will be the patron of a new area of land. Whoever has the better gift to the city, will win the contest and become the patron. Poseidon makes a salt spring as his gift to the city. He believes this will benefit the city by promising the city many things to go along with it. Athenes gifts the city an olive bush. She promises the olive bush will help the city in many ways, even though it is very small. The last reason this myth shows practicality is by the area of land on which Poseidon and Athene are fighting over. The land has water on two sides, and they still didn't pick poseidon's gift, even though it would've helped
With poseidon's salt spring, he promised the city many benefits that come along with it. He promised the city would be a ¨great empire, a mighty navy, famed shipwrights, and trading vessels which should make her known in every corner of the sea.¨ With all these benefits, the salt spring was being used for usefulness, because it would've helped the city. Since Athenes was the goddess of wisdom, her gift to the city was a genius idea. She decided that she would gift the city with a small olive bush. This bush doesn't compare to the huge earthquake Poseidon caused to form the salt spring. Although Poseidon's gift was a lot more complex, Athenes gifts reasoning was amazing. ¨With these berries the poor man will flavor his course bread and goats-milk cheese. With scented oil the rich man will deck himself for the feast. Oil poured to the gods shall be among their favorite offerings.¨ With this speech, the judges were shocked with th e ¨richness of her dull-looking gift¨. The judges could see how she was showing the usefulness of the little things in the