NOUN
- the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks
How To Use classical mythology In A Sentence
- In any case, even within technical, i.e. classical mythology, Orpheus was a singer, not a fish.
- Before their imaginations had fully wakened out of the primeval dream, the cosmogonies and theogonies, gross and monstrous, of their national infancy, they were asked to have an opinion about the classical mythology, as represented by the Latin poets; they were made acquainted with the miracles of the lives of saints. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
- Werewolf: The original werewolf of classical mythology, Lycaon, a king of Arcadia who, according to Ovid's Metamorphoses, was turned into a ravenous wolf by Zeus.
- As I watch her, she is introducing her class to the first item on her syllabus, classical mythology.
- (SAY-tuhr) [Roman name faun] A creature in classical mythology who was part man and part goat. Satyr
- Sirens, in classical mythology sea-nymphs who by their singing lured sailors to destruction on hidden rocks.
- Each age reinvents classical mythology in its own image.
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- He teaches Greek and Latin at all levels, along with courses in classical mythology and Greek literature and culture.
- The terrifying irrational has no place in classical mythology.
