How did the ancient Greeks manage to create archetypes that still say so much about modern people today?

In the topic I mean figures like Odysseus, Apollo, Prometheus, Dionysus, Ares, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus, Persephone, Hecate, Athena, Aphrodite, Artemis and others.<br><br>* Zeus with his difficult relationship with his parents and siblings<br>* Ares with his love of blood thirsty war and his hot headedness, getting himself killed slowly<br>* Hades with all the power in the world, but still lonely and unhappy<br>* Dionysus with his ability to go in and out of mania and depression and his motor mouth<br>* Poseidon with his self importance, arrogance, and tendency to make enemies<br>* Persephone and Hades with their sad and abusive marriage<br>* Poseidon and Athena with their ability to create things and make things happen<br>* Athena with her wit and intelligence, but also her lack of emotional intelligence and connection to others<br>* Artemis and Apollo with their similarities in their ability to create amazing music and art, but Apollo with his self importance and Artemis with her humility and lack of self importance<br><br>These kinds of archetypes describe so many people I know now today, it feels like the Greek understanding of humans never really changed. <br><br>I swear the way the ancient Greeks saw human nature is still exactly the same way humans function today in modern times. Every time I read more about the myths, I see more and more of myself and people around me in those stories.<br><br>But my question is, HOW did they manage to do this? I can't imagine they thought "well it's all going to be useless in 100 years, nobody will be interested in this anymore" ... "We'll just come up with some stories to explain how lightning bolts work and why women get periods, and that's it, nobody will care about this in 50 years" but 3,500 years later, we are still getting so much wisdom out of those stories.