It's not far-fetched that almost everywhere in the world where you have volcanoes you have mythologies or new gods being created.
Today's religions are nothing but the long-lived mythologies!
Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.
Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.
Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.
It is the crucifixion that distinguishes the new message from the mythologies of all other peoples.
I loved all the world's mythologies.
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.
There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together.
Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a
What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical facts that Schiff has meticulously and lovingly excavated. Schiff offers not just Cleopatra's story but the story of an amazing era, one that has vanished but still affects us, questioning the way we look at myth, history, and ourselves.
