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. - Mikhail Strabo

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Mikhail Strabo: "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."

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Alone	Aroused	Control	Expedient
Fears	Lawmakers	Long	Marvels
Myths	Needed	People	Poets
Sanctioned	Sanctioning	States	Superstitious
Them	These	Useful	Without

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