Great Quote by Tariq Ali

“The earliest Greek philosopher's criticized Homer's mythology because the gods resembled mortals too much and were just as egotistic and treacherous.”

— Jostein Gaarder

The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.

— Lascelles Abercrombie

“Theocracies are hell.  A sign of a diseased culture.  For who speaks for the gods but the temples?  And the temples have their own…

— Terry Mancour

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

— Augustus William Hare

We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.

— Penelope Lively

“It is the thing of myth and legend and the greatest epic stories ever written. But it's not myth or legend or story, and…

— Jonathan Fisk

“For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations, as in ancient Greece in the time of Homer…

— Carl Sagan

“While some of the earliest copies of non-biblical writings date to thousands of years later than their originals (Homer’s Odyssey is unusually good; only…

— Douglas M. Beaumont

This being so, it follows that mythology ought not to take the prominent place that is too often assigned to it in the scientific…

— William Robertson Smith

“Our definition of ‘myth’ in common parlance: a widely believed, but false story. That’s the definition Anant so helpfully illustrated. But that’s not how…

— Jordanna Max Brodsky

“The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology,…

— Sam Harris

“...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of…

— Will Durant