“There are also stories which point back clearly to a time when there was human sacrifice. But what is astonishing is not that bits of savage belief were left here and there. The strange thing is that they are so few.”
-Edith Hamilton, Mythology.
Tag: Edith Hamilton
On Apollo:
“Myths are early science.”
“Myths are early science, the result of men’s first trying to explain what they saw around them. But there are so many so-called myths which explain nothing at all. These tales are pure entertainment, the sort of thing people would tell each other on a long winter’s evening.” – Edith Hamilton
BookTuber Tuesday – Edith Hamilton
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