Quote by Anne Rice

“Up till now it has been thought that the growth of the Christian myths during the Roman Empire was possible only because printing was…

— Karl Marx

“Were the Romans Christians?” I asked him, remembering my curiosity at the Roman farm. “Not always,” Ravn said. “They had their own gods once,…

— Bernard Cornwell

“Christianity is a lie, and possibly the best one ever constructed because aside from architecture, it is all that survives from the Roman Empire.”

— Alejandro C. Estrada

“This is the myth of the Dark Ages, the idea that history and progress pretty much stopped for a millennium after the fall of…

— Ehsan Masood

If you did not know at age five that the gods are made up beings and the myths made up stories, you are a…

— Suetonius

“This book aims to capture, and explore, the outrageousness, inventiveness, and sheer fun that characterize classical mythology. But it is also born of the…

— Helen Morales

"The myths," says Horace in his Ars Poetica, "have been invented by wise men to strengthen the laws and teach moral truths." While Horace…

— H. P. Blavatsky

“I should acquaint the reader with the basic principles of the mythology I adhered to then. I believed . . . that inanimate objects…

— Stanisław Lem

“It really made me wish I was Roman or Greek, you know? A classical Greek god would have killed his lying, cheating father and…

— Sherman Alexie

“What caused the gods to fall upon my family like starved lions in a Roman arena?”

— Vicky Alvear Shecter

“Rome wasn't built in a day. Even God took six days to create this entire world. You will not get it all in one…

— Marcia M Edwards

“It was important for a Roman of this period to get his Greek mythology right. Being able to identify who was who and what…

— Helen Morales