classical mythology

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.

Example Sentences

Rafael painted dirty episodes from classical mythology in a bathroom at the Vatican Palace (sadly these are lost).

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After music came verbal communications, and then the apparition of forms, chiefly of classical mythology.

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What Hawthorne has lately done for the classical mythology, Lamb has here done for Shakspeare.

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Acheron, ak′kėr-on, n. death, hell—from the name of that river in the infernal regions of classical mythology.

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Amongst the infernal deities of classical mythology were the Fates or Destinies, named Parcæ.

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Pegasan wing: above the flight of 'the poet's winged steed' of classical mythology.

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