Mythological Allegories

The Greeks were fond of allegory. An allegory is a story in which the people and events have a second meaning, usually moral. For example, Aesop’s story of the fox and the grapes is an allegory of a person yearning for something beyond his reach, who tries to conceal from himself his own adequacies by asserting that the goal is not worthwhile anyway. Mythological allegories are teachers to us today because they show that from the beginning of time, people have had similar problems and dilemmas. They allow us to face certain s...