Friday, April 15, 2022

fantasy in English—a mental image or extravagant imagination—is more or less the same as a phantasia (φαντασία) in Greek. Phantasia could mean a mental image, but it could also mean appearance or perception more broadly. Over the years in antiquity, the word also became a technical term in the philosophical circles of the time. Of course, Disney also put the term to use with its third animated feature film, the 1940 musical masterpiece, Fantasia (set to pieces of classical music conducted by Leopold Stokowski, seven of which are performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra).