mythological

• “Selvans assuredly comes from Latin Silvanus which is in turn formed from a Latin word silva "forest" and that would help explain why he does not appear in Greek mythological scenes, right?”

  Selvans Canzate: a 'pure guess'

• “The laft of thefe authors divided his hiitory into three periods: the firft he called the mythological period, from the mull remote records to. the time of the deftru&ion of the Alexandiian library, in the 7th century after Chrift j the fe - cond he named the dark period, from the laft - mentioned event, to the 17th century j the third, which he did not live to write, he called the mere a r tain times ofchem: JIy.”

  Internet Archive: The Monthly Review

• “In Dream Angus, certain mythological episodes concerning Angus’ conception, birth and life are beautifully retold.”

  Archive 2007-06-01

• “The good part of our so-called mythological beasties is that they are very deeply embedded in us by now and only make rare appearances in dreams where it's child's play to cut them in half and send them back to sleep between the stardust from whence they came.”

  Fictionaut: Beer Money

• ““A picture of Casiopea,” she says, referring to the mythological queen whom Poseidon turned into an upside-down constellation.”

  Simon & Schuster: Cheer!

• “The speech of Phaedrus is also described as the mythological, that of Pausanias as the political, that of Eryximachus as the scientific, that of”

  The Symposium

• “I have just finished MY GODS, that is to say the mythological part of my Saint-Antoine, on which I have been working since the beginning of June.”

  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters

• “‡ Parnassus is known as the mythological home of poetry and music.”

  Parnassus

• “The idylls of Theocritus find, indeed, a parallel in the playful treatment of Satyrs and other subjects of a similar character; but these belong to what may be called mythological genre rather than to religious art.”

  Religion and Art in Ancient Greece

• “For example, a painting by Zeuxis of which Lucian has left us a description illustrates what may be called mythological genre.”

  A History of Greek Art

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