The poets, then, did not invent the subject-matter of their sagas, but merely coloured the existing facts.

Lactantius, divinae institutiones, I, II, 23.

My lightbulb moment of “Art & Myth in Ancient Greece” class this semester is when I realized the sheer imaginations of the ancient Greeks.

When spring came, there were no problems except where to be happiest.

There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first. To test our faith.