“The great artist looks beneath the flux of everyday reality and sees eternal, unchanging symbols…he takes ephemeral events and relocates them in an undying atmosphere…This is why not only the sculptors but all the great artists of classical Greece, wishing to ensure the perpetuation of every contemporary memorial to victory, relocated history in the elevated and symbolic atmosphere of myth. Instead of representing contemporary Greeks warring against the Persians, they gave us the Lapithae and centaurs… Thus a historic event, occurring at a specific time, escaped time and bound itself to the entire race and that race’s ancient visions.”
– Lawrence Durrell –
The Village Market 
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