‖ mythos
(ˈmaɪθɒs)
In 8 pl. mythoi.
[late L., a. Gr. µῦθος.]
= mythus.
| 1753 S. Shuckford Hist. World, Creation Pref. (1810) II. 327 Of this sort we generally find the mythoi told of them. 1803 G. S. Faber Cabiri I. 324, I cannot but be persuaded that the poem of Homer at least is a mere mythos. 1865 Mill Comte 27 A God concerning whom no mythos..had yet been invented. 1876 Contemp. Rev. June 113 The..mythos of Demeter and Persephoné. 1946 ‘G. Orwell’ in Polemic Jan. 6 The poisonous effect of the Russian mythos on English intellectual life. 1957 N. Frye Anatomy of Criticism 52 Mythoi or plot-formulas. 1974 Sat. Rev. World (U.S.) 2 Nov. 30/2 The same mythos of violence that was indigenous to..the American West. |