mythologizing

Updated: June 2, 2025

Plato therefore rejects the more tragical mode of mythologizing of the ancient poets, who thought proper to establish an arcane theology respecting the gods, and on this account devised wanderings, castrations, battles and lacerations of the gods, and many other such symbols of the truth about divine natures which this theology conceals; this mode he rejects, and asserts that it is in every respect most foreign from erudition.

Thomas Taylor - Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato