classical mythology

Cultural  

1. The mythology of the Greeks and Romans, considered together. A vast part of Roman mythology, such as the system of gods, was borrowed from the Greeks.

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Example Sentences

The two matching wine coolers owned by the Met exemplify Würth's mastery of silver craftsmanship while revealing the era's easy familiarity with Classical mythology and allegory.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2010

Classical mythology also is full of instances of great friendship, which almost assumed the place of a religion itself.

From Friendship by Black, Hugh

Classical mythology, along with dryads and tree-nymphs of all sorts, furnishes us with a multitude of myths of the metamorphosis of human beings into trees, plants, and flowers.

From The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day by Chamberlain, Alexander F.

Classical mythology serves Chaucer as an additional storehouse of story and illustration, but it no more intoxicates him with rapture than does the Gesta Romanorum.

From Chaucer and His Times by Hadow, Grace E.

Classical mythology, taken in its first simplicity, is too bold, taken as a mere figure of rhetoric, too insipid, to give us satisfaction.

From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various