My father, thankfully, is not alive to see how Mr. Yoho mentioned that he has a wife and two daughters. “My nails are broken, my fingers are bleeding, my arms are covered with the welts left by the paws of your guards-but I am a queen!”― Sophocles, “Antigone” Diane Fortenberry Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths But as Morales argues, mythology also enables us to examine events and human situations from a distance, stepping back from the specific to the abstract and so transcending the limitations of currency-and this is invaluable. “ The danger of mythology-not just Classical myth, but all myth, from Norse to Japanese to African to Native American-is that it is so deep-rooted in the contemporary cultures to which it is ancestral that ancient social practices and preferences and justifications have become part of the DNA of modern societies-mutations that we think of (when we think of them at all) as laws of God or nature, however illogically or irrelevantly.
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