Maximus has the same faith as Plutarch that the Mythopoeic age possessed, along with an enthralling artistic skill, all the speculative depth and subtlety of later ages.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
Although Plato would not banish myth from his Utopia, he placed his ban on the Mythopoeic poets who had lent their authority to tales and crimes and passions of the gods.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
And they often fall back on a divine doctrine, or tradition, or a Mythopoeic power by which poetic imagination peoples the dim regions of a world beyond the senses.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill