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Ethos vs. Mythos — What's the Difference?

Ethos vs. Mythos — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Ethos and Mythos

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Ethos

Ethos ( or US: ) is a Greek word meaning "character" that is used to describe the guiding beliefs or ideals that characterize a community, nation, or ideology. The Greeks also used this word to refer to the power of music to influence emotions, behaviors, and even morals.

Mythos

A myth or mythology
The Arthurian mythos

Ethos

The characteristic spirit of a culture, era, or community as manifested in its attitudes and aspirations
A challenge to the ethos of the 1960s

Mythos

Myth.

Ethos

The disposition, character, or fundamental values peculiar to a specific person, people, culture, or movement
"They cultivated a subversive alternative ethos" (Anthony Burgess).
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Mythos

Mythology.

Ethos

The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.

Mythos

The pattern of basic values and attitudes of a people, characteristically transmitted through myths and the arts.

Ethos

(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.

Mythos

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

Ethos

(aesthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.

Mythos

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.

Ethos

The character, sentiment, or disposition of a community or people, considered as a natural endowment; the spirit which actuates manners and customs; also, the characteristic tone or genius of an institution or social organization.

Mythos

(by extension) A set of assumptions or beliefs about something.

Ethos

The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character - character as influenced by the ethos (sense 1) of a people - rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; - opposed to pathos.

Mythos

(literature) A recurring theme; a motif.

Ethos

(anthropology) the distinctive spirit of a culture or an era;
The Greek ethos

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