Quotes About Mythology

No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. - Poseidon

Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.

Fear in the world first created the gods. [Lat., Primus in orbe deos fecit timor.]

Myths and legends die hard in America.

Fear first made gods in the world.

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

looked longingly at the characteristic features he shared with the Guermantes, a race that retains its individuality in a world by which it is not submerged, and in which it remains isolated in its divinely ornithological glory, for it seems to have sprung, in the age of mythology, from the union of a goddess and a bird.

Now that Olympus no longer exists, its inhabitants dwell upon the earth.

Prometheus recast as a serial killer.

So we spent our undergraduate years awash in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse and Middle English, living with Beowulf and Sir Gawain, ... and we were required to pay hardly any attention to the 19th-century novel, and not much to the 18th. As for the 20th century, it might have never arrived. As a friend of mine said, 'They taught us to believe in dragons.

The dregs of Romulus.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

There were poets before Homer.

Sarah Pomeroy, in her careful study, Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves

Are you going to let me be eaten?' Billy Beecham looks stunned. 'Don't you know that sometimes Beast collectors get collected?' I ask him. 'But you're a virgin.' 'Virgins were never sacrifices,' I say. "Not to this kind of Beast. Virgins are collaborators.

Down the hall is Ms Englander's classroom. She teachers World Civilization. Her walls are covered with images from the Bible, Greek Mythology, and fairy tales. Passing by, I see Eve at the tree, Pandora, Bluebeard's wife. All those women in stories opening boxes they're not supposed to, peeking through doors to see what they shouldn't, eating forbidden fruit. They do it because they want to know what's really going on. They want to feel alive. Why are they always told no?

Fishwives. Fishwidows. And we all set out to be mermaids.

Entomologists trap insects in their killing jars and then pin their corpses to cards, and no one utters a single squeak of protest. For that matter, let a gentleman hunt a tiger for its skin, and everyone applauds his courage. But to shoot a dragon for science? That, for some reason, is cruel.

Fertility is only one among the Goddess's many functions. It is inaccurate to call Paleolithic and Neolithic images 'fertility goddesses,' as is still done in archeological literature. Earth fertility became a prominent concern only in the food producing era; hence it is not a primary function of the Goddess and has nothing to do with sexuality. The goddesses were mainly life creators, not Venuses or beauties, and most definitely not wives of male gods.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.

Romulus and Remus There is a legend that the city of Rome was founded by twins called Romulus and Remus. They were abandoned when babies, and a she-wolf looked after and fed them. When they grew up, they founded the city at the spot where they themselves were discovered. This statue of the wolf and her babies can be seen on the Capitoline Hill in Rome. A caged female wolf also is kept here, in memory of the legend.

Like all great adventures, this one started with someone trying to get laid. King Menelaus didn't go to Troy for the baklava.

So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in the throat of Adam in the Garden of Eden. There is a problem with this theory because some Hebrew scholars believe that the forbidden fruit was the pomegranate. The Koran claims that the forbidden fruit was a banana. So take your pick---Adam's apple, Adam's pomegranate, Adam's banana. Eve clearly chewed before swallowing.