Ancient Quote by Tom Hiddleston

“It’s in our nature to want to watch our human frailties played out on a huge, epic canvas. Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a…

— Tom Hiddleston

What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods,…

— David Simon

“The mindset of antiquity lacked economic science and sociological theory. The ancients did rather well with political narrative, although, except for Thucydides, no first-rate…

— Norman F. Cantor

“Not all the gods who appear in these tales and fancies became more than mythological figures. Many of them continued merely in this role,…

— James Henry Breasted

In the Roman world, and in the worlds around it that Romans sought to subdue and control, the gods were merciless, frivolous, prone to…

— Michael Korda

“This story twists the ancient myths we grow up with,” Berger says, “where what the reader knows about the Olympian gods, or thinks he…

— David Berger

Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to…

— Anonymous

“The Greek gods had personalities like those of humans and struggled with one another for position and power. They did not love humans (although…

— Barry B. Powell

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

— Northrop Frye

“cultures define their gods when they’re young and primitive, when their main concern is survival. They endow their gods with survival characteristics like omnipotence…

— Sheri S. Tepper

Being somebody who's like a theater geek that I am, I can just go right back to Aeschylus and Euripides and Sophocles: they were…

— Holly Hunter

Mythology can be defined as the sacred history of humankind.

— Gerald Hausman