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This paper explores the Christian reinterpretation of classical mythology in Victorian poetry, focusing on three poets—Robert Bridges, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Richard Watson Dixon. Although often categorized separately in literary history—Bridges as a modern poet, Hopkins as a religious poet, and Dixon as a Pre-Raphaelite—the three shared a mutual engagement with reimagining myth through a Christian lens. This study reveals how each poet re-appropriated Greek myth not merely as cultural ornament but as a theological and moral framework within the tensions of Victorian religious life by examining Bridges’s Prometheus the Firegiver, Hopkins’s “Andromeda,” and Dixon’s epic Mano. While Bridges constructs Prometheus as a Christlike figure symbolizing divine sacrifice and moral heroism, Hopkins re-imagines Andromeda as a symbol of the suffering Catholic Church in a secular age. In contrast, Dixon mythologizes Christian history itself, casting medieval Catholicism in a critical light. The study demonstrates how these poets transformed classical myth into a compelling vehicle for articulating religious and moral vision, illustrating the porous and dynamic boundary between myth and faith in nineteenth-century English literature.