6 sentences with 'myths'
Example sentences and phrases with the word myths and other words derived from it.
• « The Greek philosopher Aristotle was unimpressed by the myths explaining lightning in his time, the 4th century B.C., and held that it was an "exhalation" from the fiery sphere found in the lower regions of the sky. »
• « Some beautiful artefacts and amazing myths and poems have survived from this civilisation, but it was also one of the most predatory civilisations we know of in ancient history. »
• « Likewise, both Greek myths and epic tales are full of hostility and suspicion of assertive and intelligent women, celebrating instead women who dutifully served their husbands or fathers. »
• « Greek gods and myths were shared by the Romans, and only the names of the gods were changed (e.g. Zeus became Jupiter, Aphrodite became Venus, Hades became Pluto, etc.). »
• « In a major break with the past, Enlightenment thinkers increasingly asserted that there was a real physical universe that could be understood with the methods of science, in contrast to the false invented universe of "magic" suitable only for myths and storytelling. »
• « He likes to test or disprove household myths: he once armed himself with a thermometer and a stopwatch, and set about blowing and puffing on spoonfuls of boiling water, to see if the soup really does cool like that. He concluded that it does cool, but not very much when it is thick. »