Plato the myth maker
Mythe
Aristotle
Stoics
Mythen
Plato
Myth
Greece
Greek
Philosophy, ancient
Renaissance
Mythology
Middle Ages
Religion
Philosophy
History
The word myth is commonly thought to mean a fictional story, but few know that Plato was the first to use the term muthos in that sense. He also used muthos to describe the practice of making and telling stories, the oral transmission of all that a community keeps in its collective memory. In the fi…
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