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Mythos

Words · Myth & story

A Greek word for told story or traditional tale-speech. Not logos as reasoned account, and not every later ‘myth’ dismissal.

Hellenic religion

  • Mythos appears in Hellenic religion.

    Hesiod’s Theogony tells the gods’ genealogies as traditional tale-speech. A named Hellenic mythos speech in that cosmogonic poem, not logos as reasoned account and not every later ‘myth’ dismissal.

    from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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