The Power of Imagination.

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history" - Robert Fulghum

I think that myth is in fact more powerful than history because imagination is more potent than knowledge. When violence took place, of stage, in Greek tragedy it was always more potent than some staged violence that might have been preformed on stage because when a messenger described the violence it left the gory details to the viewer’s imagination. People would rather listen to a story of an historical event (say the Trojan war) despite its possible historical inaccuracies rather than read through the reports of the archeology excavations of the city of Troy. Myth is always more palatable to people than fact because myth engages the readers imagination far more effectively than fact. When our goal is to inspire or entertain we should never let the facts interfere with a good story.