Quotes About Mythology

I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.

In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price.

I couldn't resist painting Orpheus and Charon on the River Styx. There was something strangely intriguing about seeing Orpheus playing his lyre as he is being shuttled across the river.

Et, comme Ulysse, il rentrera chez lui et vivra vieux (j'ignore s'il est mort aujourd'hui) – seul inconvénient pour en faire un héros de grande diffusion.

Further, Columbus believes not only in Christian dogma, but also (and he is not alone at the time) in Cyclopes and mermaids, in Amazons and men with tails, and his belief, as strong as Saint Peter's, therefore permits him to find them.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Sugriva was the son of Surya and Vali was the son of Shakra.

portion Indra's claim

may still be traced in the present Ajudhyá near Fyzabad. Ajudhyá is the Jerusalem

Rámáyan leaves

If the serpent was actually Satan, a fallen angel, then why were serpents punished rather than Satan himself? (Satan doesn't crawl around on his belly in later stories.)

la imagen de Atenea, una efigie pequeña, de no más de tres codos, que la representaba de pie, lanza en ristre y tocada con el yelmo.

El mundo entero, el cielo, el mar y la tierra se aprestaban a dar postrer adiós al guerrero divino y salvaje, el Pélida Aquiles, príncipe de Ftía.

No podemos contar con la ayuda de los dioses. Ellos no ayudan a los necios.

The Goddess of all Things rose naked from Chaos and found nowhere to place her foot. Separating the sea from the sky, she brooded over the waters until she gave birth to life-Herself.

What caused the gods to fall upon my family like starved lions in a Roman arena?

Oh, also, do not eat any of the luscious pomeganates that grow near my palace, because if you do, you will never return to the land of the living. Why rush things, right?

Our mom, Rhea, was not happy about her husband's baby-eating habit, but she didn't know how to stop him. Finally, by the time my little brother Zeus was born, she came up with a plan. (Really, mom? Nothing occured to you until the sixth child?)

Aphrodite had the beauty; Zeus had the thunderbolts. Everyone loved Aphrodite, but everyone listened to Zeus.

When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.

Mythology is much better stuff than history. It has form; logic; a message.

There's this piece of contemporary mythology that the forties are the best time of your life. A load of cock, so far as I'm concerned.

The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.