Myth [addendum] As Alasdair MacIntyre says, some philosophers have treated myth, disparagingly, as the opposite of logos, as a nonrational form of understanding the world that either has been or should be displaced by science and reason. Others have...

The word <i>mythology</i><sup id="cite_ref-0" class="reference">[1]</sup> refers to a body of myths/stories that a particular culture believes to be true and that use the supernatural to interpret natural events and to explain the nature of the universe...

Once among the most frightening and effective epithets in American political culture, “socialized medicine” seems to have lost its juju. These days, that phrase sounds awfully dated, like a song on a gramophone or a mother-in-law joke or a John Birch Society rant against fluoridated...

MADRID, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Madrid's newly extended Prado art museum will unveil a less well-known side to one of Spain's most emblematic historical painters, Diego Velazquez, on Tuesday. Velazquez, whose work is one of the big draws at the museum's world-famous art collection,...

In the essay that follows, Littleton studies various versions of the widespread and pervasive motif of the divine king, and concludes that the theme does not have a single Indo-European origin.

In the essay that follows, Puhvel discusses the ancient epics of India—the Ramayana and the Mahabharata—considering in particular the intermingling of myth and history in these complex narratives.

In the following essay, Kelsey examines the use of the snake figure in Buddhist and Shinto narratives of evil and redemption.

What makes mythology mythological through examples from the book 'Mythology.'

Describes the importance of the images based on European mythology. Explores how mythology has applied a persistent influence on the arts throughout Europe from the earliest times and thus, numerous images were created because of such inspiration.

Mythology refers to the body of stories that explain some aspect of the human condition, especially the creation of the world and the acts of nature. They are found in every culture in the world, and the Greek and Roman myths are the most influential.