mythos

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Anything transmitted by word of mouth, such as a fable, legend, narrative, story, or tale (especially a poetic tale).

   “POLY′MYTHY (S[ubstantive]) in Poetry, a fault in an epic poem, when inſtead of a ſingle mythos, or fable, there is a multiplicity of them.”

2. isim A story or set of stories relevant to or having a significant truth or meaning for a particular culture, religion, society, or other group; a myth, a mythology.

   “But the most highly gifted of all peoples in poetic insight were the Greeks. They possessed supreme ability in the interpretation of nature as expression of spirit. They have countless mythoses to express the immortality of man and his after-life.”

3. isim A set of assumptions or beliefs about something.
4. isim A recurring theme; a motif.

   “In addition to mythoi drawn from myths and fairy tales, romances also employ mythoi derived from chivalric romances.”