Interestingly, although the myths of the ancient Greeks are generally thought of as being intrinsic to the Greek's spiritual belief system, this shows evidence that in certain ancient circles, philosophy questioned this system and tried to explain it with a logical and historical framework. Furthermore, it is true that at least some myths are actually based on historical events, as demonstrated by the historical and archeological evidence that supports Homer’s epic The Iliad. Euhemerism therefore becomes extremely complex because it leads to the assertion that everything and anything could be part of a mythological narrative. In fact, philosopher and writer Roland Barthes argues that “myth is a word chosen by history” ("Mythologies"). This analysis of myth is something that Barthes explores in his work Mythologies, and highlights the presence of the every-day in mythology, turning the mundane into the extraordinary.

Roland Barthes’Barthes’s Mythologies presents elements of contemporary life as hypothetically mythological happenings. Mythologies is a collection of essays, written between 1954 and 1956, where Barthes employs euhemerism to mythologize what could otherwise be described as part of the mundane or the everyday. As an introduction to the work, Barthes writes; “I resented seeing Nature and History confused at every turn, and I wanted to track down, in the decorative display of what-goes-without-saying, the ideological abuse which, in my view, is hidden there” (Barthes 10). In other words, Barthes was interested in uncovering the ways in which we use devices of mythology to describe our everyday, and the potential harm of such actions.