Mythos

"And yet, it was still a performance. Odin and I both knew it. It was a kind of play, a dream of how things might have been." — J. Harris

We summarise a classical Greek tragedy, originally collected in Ovid's Metamorphoses, telling a tale of murder, betrayal and revenge.

“The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin

"Why shirts made of graveyard nettles by bleeding fingers and silence should disenchant men..." ― R. Stonlit

“What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished." ― Peter S. Beagle

"For fifty years she rocked that babe / It's said she rocks him still / A mother of a changeling child from 'neath the fairy hill" ― H. Dale

"Kelpies eat people. They may not play with their food as creatively as the Each Uisge, but dead is dead.” ― E.J. Stevens

"They say monsters can be beautiful too, and if that is the case then truly there was none more monstrous than he."

"Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his." ― W. H. Auden

"Fashion a man equal to Gilgamesh An untamed man to tame the tyrant An untaught man to teach him secrets." ― Jenny Lewis

"You carry both lightning and thunder / in that space between your bones and soul. / Become the storm you are hiding from" ― Nikita Gill

"Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, that I know for sure" – Jean Lorrain

“The cunning fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.” – Thomas Paine

“…but the moon was shining and to conceal her deed, she took a pail of pitch and began to tar the moon black.” – Emilie Demant Hatt

"Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together," - Plato

"At once the secret was revealed. "There lay the gentlest and sweetest of all creatures, Cupid himself." – Lucius Apuleius

Dido was on fire with love and wandered all over the city in her misery and madness like a wounded doe.” ― Virgil

Let me warn you, Icarus, to take the middle way. Travel between the extremes." ― Ovid

"How can one have the heart to go back on the bridge made of magpies?" ― Qin Guan

“Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead" ― Thomas Malory