10 Great Movies Inspired by Greek Mythology

"Rather than have people huddled around a night-time fire, telling stories of warriors and gods by a single source of burning light, today we gather in the darkness of the cinema, and again, a single source of light projects for us the stories of love and death, hope and loss. After all, the word myth originally meant simply 'story' or 'narrative' rather than having any grander connotations; but this grandness that we now associate with myth is a part of cinema too; the largeness of the screen, the sublime scale of emotions. We identify our most celebrated actors with 'stars', a fame that's so large that it becomes almost cosmic."

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