Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate. Do you have to know them? No, but certainly it is nice to recognise how deeply these things are embedded in our literature, our art.
Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study; to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.
Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.
We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.
Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.
In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
I cannot understate the ability to handle classical texts such as Shakespeare.
I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.