1. I read and reread the Greek myths and legends. 2. There is a famous Greek myth in which Icarus flew too near to the Sun. 3. According to Greek myth, Cassandra was a visionary who was endowed with the gift of inerrant prophecy but fated to never be believed. 4. According to Greek myth, Hercules was granted godhood after his death. 5. The Greek myths, war and peace and the great and the good. 6. Also known as the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades were placed in the heavens by Zeus to save them from the giant hunter, Orion, in Greek myth. 7. Although best known for his adventure stories with historical settings, he won critical praise for his retellings of Bible stories, Greek myths and the plays of Shakespeare. 8. As if determined to suppress the latent eroticism of their work, the pre-Raphaelites decked out their fleshly reveries in allegorical motifs drawn from Greek myth and medieval romance. 9. A scholar could date this pattern to Greek myth. 10. According to Greek myth, when the monster Typhon burst into an assembly of feasting Olympians, the gods escaped by changing themselves into animals. |