Concept
Myth
Overview
type of traditional narrative
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The latter is always concerned with events of the past or, in extreme cases, with those of the immediate present. No doubt, the desires of men may reach out indefinitely into the future. Myth narrative, however, in the narrower sense of the term, takes no account of that which lies beyond the present. In general, moreover, its scene of action is the existing world, however much this may be embellished by the…
Wilhelm Max Wundt, Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind
The chapter “13. COSMOGONIC AND THEOGONIC MYTHS.” is titled for Myth; names Myth several times.
Here it must suffice to point to two of the _Romane Questions_. In the fourth question we have a tale told of successful trickery on the part of Servius Tullius, which may well have formed part of some story of a Master Thief; and in _Romane Questions_ 36, the nightly visits of Fortuna through the window to her lover, Servius Tullius, at once remind us of the "soul-maidens" and "swan-maidens," who visit, and…
Plutarch, Plutarch's Romane Questions
The chapter “IV. ITALIAN MYTHS.” is titled for Myth; the book is titled for Myth.
The magnificent myth in the Phaedrus treats of the immortality, or rather the eternity of the soul, in which is included a former as well as a future state of existence. To these may be added, (1) the myth, or rather fable, occurring in the Statesman, in which the life of innocence is contrasted with the ordinary life of man and the consciousness of evil: (2) the legend of the Island of Atlantis, an imaginary…
Plato, Gorgias
The chapter “THE MYTHS OF PLATO.” is titled for Myth; names Myth several times.
Philosophers who discussed Myth
- Epicurus
- Gershom Scholem
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
- Richard Dawkins
- Dio Chrysostom
- Johann Gottfried Herder
- Thales of Miletus
- Étienne Balibar
- Paul Ricœur
- Ernst Cassirer
- C. S. Lewis
- Georges Sorel
- Pherecydes of Syros
- Euhemerus
- Hans Blumenberg
- Richard Tarnas
- Franciscus Patricius
- Giorgio de Santillana
- Constantin François Chassebœuf, comte de Volney
Related ideas
- Globe Pequot Publishing Group
- Belief
- Folklore
- Aphrodite
- Athena
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Herodotus
- Homer
- Abrahamic religions
- Orphism
- Animism
- Abraham
- Ancient Greek
- Parable
- Interdisciplinarity
- Mircea Eliade
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Damascius
- Republic (Plato)
- Giambattista Vico
- Roland Barthes
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Middle Platonism
- Sociology
Opposing perspectives
- Planet
- Joseph Campbell
- Deity
- Legend
- Supernatural
- Anarcho-syndicalism
- Burton L. Mack
- Sacred waters
- Outline of philosophy
- Lost lands
Place in the tradition
Part of Outline of philosophy.
Narrower topics:
- Aeneid
- Aphrodite
- Fantasy
- Georges Dumézil
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Joseph Campbell
- Legend
- Metamorphoses
- Northrop Frye
- Odyssey
- Poseidon
- The Golden Bough
- The Interpretation of Dreams
- Hans Blumenberg
- Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
- Gilbert Durand
- On the Cave of the Nymphs in the Odyssey
- Structuralist theory of mythology
- Mythopoeia (poem)
- Theologia mythologica
- Troy Book