Reading Comprehension Test 69

A. The chief modern challenge to myth has come not from ethics but from science.
B. Where Plato bemoans myths for presenting the gods as practitioners of immoral behaviour, modern critics dismiss myth for explaining the world unscientifically.
C. It was above all the Stoics who defended myth against this charge by reinterpreting it allegorically.
D. In the West the challenge to myth goes back at least to Plato, who rejected Homeric myth on, especially,
ethical grounds.
E. Here myth is assumed to explain how gods control the physical world rather than, as for Plato, how they behave among themselves.