He appears as unapologetically at home in twentieth century fiction as in classical mythology, Christian hagiology, medieval legend, or Gothic romance.
It would be interesting if one could trace them to their ultimate sources and discover how much they have been suggested or influenced by classical mythology.
His counterpart in classical mythology is Pan, or, as god of gardens, Priapus.
The Naiads, in classical mythology, are water nymphs,--lovely maidens presiding over brooks and fountains.
Lake Avernus was, in classical mythology, the entrance to Hades.
In classical mythology, Diana is the moon goddess, Hamadryad, a wood nymph, Naiad, a water nymph.
He does not, like Spenser, constantly break the narrative by introducing some beautiful picture drawn from classical mythology, thus carrying the thoughts of the reader away from the actual situation at the moment.
This opens the way for a long, rambling lament, full of allusions to classical mythology.
The magnum opus, perhaps, of the child as inventor, is the lyre, the discovery of which, classical mythology attributes to the infant Mercury or Hermes.
Classical mythology, along with dryads and tree-nymphs of all sorts, furnishes us with a multitude of myths of the metamorphosis of human beings into trees, plants, and flowers.
Here belong, doubtless, some of the myths of the sea-born deities of classical mythology as well as those of the water-origin of the first of the human race, together with kindred conceits of other primitive peoples.
As if to compensate for these departures from orthodoxy, the later epyllionists leaned ever more heavily on allusions to classical mythology.
But both, and especially =Philos and Licia=, are a tissue of allusions to classical mythology.
As might perhaps be expected when there was plenty of material to hand in Tuscany, less use is made of the persons of classical mythology in finding subjects for punishment.
Further on in the same circle are found examples of the punishment of pride, taken alternately from Scripture and from classical mythology.
The errors I have attempted to characterise did not, however, prevent the better and more careful works of sculpture, executed in illustration of classical mythology, from having a true value.
The point that connects him with Botticelli is the romantic treatment of classical mythology, best exemplified in his pictures of the tale of Perseus and Andromeda.
Each great master of the Renaissance had his own relation to classical mythology.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "classical mythology" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
