| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| NUMBER: | 56631 |
| QUOTATION: | The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient.... They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Strabo (c. 58 B.C.–c. 24 A.D., Greek geographer. Geographia, bk. 1, sct. 2, subsct. 8. |
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