The ancient Greeks have a knack of wrapping truths in myths.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.
I loved the myths of ancient Greece and Egypt.
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.
Since the Greek myths, the greatest stories are premised on the idea of, 'A stranger arrives.'
Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people actually believe.