Sentence examples for roman myth from inspiring English sources

In Roman myth Vulcan was the father of Caeculus, founder of Praeneste (now Palestrina, Italy).

In the only purely Roman myth, he is tricked into marrying the aged Anna Perenna.

In any case, Aeneas survived the war, and his figure was thus available to compilers of Roman myth.

Well, as pointed out by HuffPost, not only do the two look like each other, but there's also an old Roman myth that tells a very, very similar story.

It's full of fascinating detail not only about Roman myth, customs and history, and what Romans thought of themselves and their place in the world, but about the lives of ordinary people.

And, in this fashion, he appears to have spent whole portions of his childhood dwelling not just in northern Colombia but also in the hyper-­elegant universe of Luis de Góngora and the ­syllable-counting poets of imperial Spain, long ago — whose own memories reached spectrally back into the shadows of Roman myth and esoteric philosophy.

There are several Roman myths about Mars.

Greek and Roman myths were developed over centuries of retelling.

You go on to the Greek and Roman myths and legends because that's a bit like fantasy.

Woolf next looks into how the assassins saw themselves, and how the conspiracy arose in Roman myths of aristocratic liberty and Greek theories of kingship and tyranny.

It's conventional and cosy to think of paintings by the old masters as glowing depictions of Greek and Roman myths.