http://diigo.com/0u4ss

In Robert Grave's Babylon, he discusses how children lose their ability to be poets as they grow up. Grave's discusses some of the famous mythic characters (or real people who became legendary) and how they all leave the adult's mind, leaving his mind as a sort of Babylon: once filled with a wealth of imagination, and now fallen to the realities of being an adult.

I've annotated the page to provide some idea where many of the characters come from, although I've left out some of the more common ones from my culture.

Carly