Quotes About Mythology

She was brave from excess of grief

What did they say about Helen of Troy? That her face launched a thousand ships? That's you, you're that beautiful. A thousand ships.

Lost in Hell,-Persephone, Take her head upon your knee; Say to her, "My dear, my dear, It is not so dreadful here.

Let the bard from Smyrna catalogue Harma, the ledges and caves of Thaca, the milk-fed damsels of Achaia, pigeon-flocked Thisbe or the woods of Onchestus, I sing of Oak, Walnut, Chesnut, Maple and Elm Streets.

Eris, the Goddess of Discord and sister of Ares, presides over separatio. It was she who came uninvited to a marriage on Olympus and flung into the midst of the gathering an apple inscribed "to the fairest." Thus she brought about the judgment of Paris. Comparisons are odious and comparison is what the golden apple provoked. To determine what is "more" and what is "most" requires and leads to judgments.

The great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.

I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon.

This is the West, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

There were giants in the earth in those days… mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Refuse profane and old wives' fables.

The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.

In the time when Dendid created all things,He created the sun,And the sun is born, and dies, and comes again.

Ab urbe condita [Since the founding of the city (Rome)].

That's what the gods do," he says, "they spin threads of ruin through the fabric of our lives, all to make a song for generations to come.

The Goddess of History looked down to earth. Only through the hottest fires can purification be achieved.

Read a certain way, the Natural History is preposterous, full of erroneous assumptions and cast-off mythology. Read another way, it is a window into Roman understanding two millennia ago. Read another way, it is a tribute to wonder itself

That's what the gods do they spin threads of ruin through the fabric of our lives, all to make a song for generations to come.

Cloud Cuckoo Land by Antonius Diogenes, Folio K

the goddess spiraled down from the night. She had a white body, gray wings, and a bright orange mouth like a beak, and although she was not as large as I expected a goddess to be, I became afraid. She landed on her yellow feet and took a few steps and began picking at a pile of seaweed.

and he thinks of Argus Panoptes, the watchman of Hera, who had eyeballs all over his head and even on the tips of his fingers, so many eyes that when he closed fifty of them to sleep he held fifty more open to keep watch.

now called Alexander Helios (Greek "Sun") and Cleopatra Selene ("Moon").

pay the ferryman to carry Augustus' spirit across the river Styx to the underworld.

It is as if nothing had ever happened on that bloodstained shore. Had Helen been worth it?