Words / B2

mi-THOL-uh-jee/mɪˈθɒlədʒi/

Mythology is a set of traditional stories about gods and heroes, or the study of them: Greek mythology; political mythology. Myth is one story (already elsewhere); legend is often more human. Name the set, then the later political use. Mix-up: methodology is research design (already elsewhere); mycology is fungi. Do not write mythology for your methods paragraph.

Meaning

A set of traditional stories about gods and heroes, or the study of them.

Examples

• “Name the mythology in the source, then the later political use.”
• “Norse mythology featured in the literature paper, which is the god-stories sense.”

Good to know

mythology; Greek / Norse mythology. One story: myth. Trap: methodology. RS, literature, and politics. God-and-hero stories, not how you sampled.

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