The man then tells the heroes that they need to save Myth Drannor by getting an ancient artifact from the Lich known as the Codex.

In Angus Calder's re-examination of the ideological constructs surrounding " Little England " during World War II in The Myth of the Blitz, he puts forward the view that the story of Deep England was central to wartime propaganda operations within the United Kingdom, and then, as now, served a clearly defined political and cultural purpose in the hands of various interested agencies.

In the Myth of Er, particularly, Plato rendered an account of the afterlife which involved a journey through seven planetary spheres and then eventual reincarnation.

Thus, the " Myth of the Stab in the Back " was born according to which the revolutionaries stabbed the army, " undefeated on the field ", in the back and only then turning the almost secure victory into a defeat.

Since then, Greaves has produced numerous works, including From These Roots, Nationtime: Gary, Where Dreams Come True, Booker T. Washington: Life and Legacy, Frederick Douglass: An American Life, Black Power in America: Myth or Reality ?, The Deep North, and Ida B.

Donna was then trained by both the Amazons and the Titans of Myth.

She then appeared in Myth America, East of A and If These Walls Could Talk 2.

As Camus put it in The Myth of Sisyphus, " In a universe that is suddenly deprived of illusions and of light, man feels a stranger.

According to the standard modern text on the work, Lamar Ronald Lacey's The Myth of Aktaion: Literary and Iconographic Studies, the most likely original version of the myth is that Actaeon was the hunting companion of the goddess who, seeing her naked in her sacred spring, attempts to force himself on her.

William Arens, author of The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy, questions the credibility of reports of cannibalism and argues that the description by one group of people of another people as cannibals is a consistent and demonstrable ideological and rhetorical device to establish perceived cultural superiority.

Speaking for myself, the definition that seems least inadequate because most embracing is this: Myth narrates a sacred history ; it relates an event that took place in primordial Time, the fabled time of the " beginnings.

It is in relation to the concept of the devastating awareness of meaninglessness that Albert Camus claimed that " there is only one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide " in his The Myth of Sisyphus.

* The Myth of Persistence of Vision Revisited – commentary on whether the concept is really a myth.

Author Tracy Barrett wrote a novel titled Dark of the Moon, published in 2011, which is a re-write of the Theseus Myth.

He is the author of over 75 scientific papers and 6 books including Evolution and the Myth of Creationism published by Stanford University Press in 1990.

Anthropologist Robert Carl Suggs included a chapter titled " The Kon-Tiki Myth " in his book on Polynesia, concluding that " The Kon-Tiki theory is about as plausible as the tales of Atlantis, Mu, and ' Children of the Sun.

The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus.

Myth is a series of real-time tactics video games.

The focus of the Myth series ' solo campaigns is on a smaller force outmaneuvering and outthinking a much larger enemy force.

The presentation of Sherman in popular culture is now discussed at book-length in Sherman's March in Myth and Memory ( Rowman and Littlefield, 2008 ), by Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown.

In opposition to the arguments put forward by economist Donald Wittman in his The Myth of Democratic Failure, Caplan claims that politics is biased in favor of irrational beliefs.

It is the last of the " Lazarus Long " cycle of stories, involving time travel, parallel dimensions, free love, voluntary incest, and a concept that Heinlein named pantheistic solipsism, or World as Myth — the theory that universes are created by the act of imagining them, so that somewhere ( for example ) the Land of Oz is real.

An analogous setup is described in the Myth of Er at the end of Plato's Republic.

His books The Myth of Mental Illness ( 1960 ) and The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement ( 1970 ) set out some of the arguments with which he is most associated.

Later, historians such as D. W. Robertson in the 1960s and John C. Moore and E. Talbot Donaldson in the 1970s, were critical of the term as being a modern invention, Donaldson calling it " The Myth of Courtly Love ", because it is not supported in medieval texts.

Albert Camus, in his 1942 essay The Myth of Sisyphus, saw Sisyphus as personifying the absurdity of human life, but Camus concludes " one must imagine Sisyphus happy " as " The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.

Ali Smith's 2007 novel Girl Meets Boy is based on Ovid's story of Iphis and Ianthe, and is part of the Canongate Myth Series.

The Knights of Myth Drannor are also his close friends and confidants, and two or three knights are always in Shadowdale in case it is in peril.

) Over time, and after the fall of Myth Drannor, this organization evolved into a new group, founded by Elminster and other influential and powerful individuals, with support from many freedom loving and good-aligned deities and churches ( although the churches don't always agree with Harper aims, the deities themselves do.

No matter how life treats one or how successful or famous or powerful one becomes, one way or the other, or even, as in the Myth, how many temporary heavenly rewards or hellish punishments one experiences, these virtues will always work to one's advantage.

Thus it seems possible that Shakespeare, in conforming to the growing " Tudor Myth " of the day, as well as taking into account new theologies of divine action and human will becoming popular in the wake of the Protestant Reformation, sought to paint Richard as the final curse of God on England in punishment for the deposition of Richard II in 1399.

In The Blitzkrieg Myth, John Mosier poses interesting questions as to whether the concept as applied to tank and other warfare in World War II was more misleading to planning than helpful, on account of the numerous exceptional conditions faced in war, and also whether evaluation based largely on how well breakout or breakthrough potential was realized is appropriate.

A 2009 book by linguist Elizabeth Solopova, Languages, Myth and History: An Introduction to the Linguistic and Literary Background of J. R. R. Tolkien's Fiction ( New York City: North Landing Books ) gives an overview of the linguistic traits of the various languages invented by Tolkien and the history of their creation.

Douglas Tottle is mostly known for his controversial book Fraud, Famine, and Fascism: the Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard, in which he asserts that claims the Holodomor was an intentional genocide are " fraudulent ", and " a creation of Nazi propagandists ".

" The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth "; Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary.

* Yosef Ben-Jochannan, author: African Origins of Major " Western Religions "; Black Man of the Nile and His Family ; Africa: Mother of Western Civilization ; New Dimensions in African History ; The Myth of Exodus and Genesis and the Exclusion of Their African Origins ; Africa: Mother of Western Civilization ; Abu Simbel to Ghizeh: A Guide Book and Manual

We might call this kind " human ," if to do so did not imply that 1 and 2 were somehow less than human. In the 1983 edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction, in which a lengthy addendum to the original 1961 book was published, Booth outlined various identities taken on by both authors and readers: The Flesh-and Blood Author, the Implied Author, the Teller of This Tale, the Career Author, and the " Public Myth "; and, the Flesh-and-Blood Re-Creator of Many Stories, the Postulated Reader, the Credulous Listener, the Career Reader, and the Public Myth about the " Reading Public.

" He related these plays based on a broad theme of the Absurd, similar to the way Albert Camus uses the term in his 1942 essay, " The Myth of Sisyphus ".

The third part concerns the Five regimes and is strongly related to The Laws dialogue ; and the Myth of Er.

The Myth of the Toad King tells how introduction of Buddhist teachings led to war with the sky deity Phaya Thaen, and ended in a truce with nagas posted as guardians of entrances to temples.

* The Myth of Persistence of Vision Revisited – A detailed explanation of how the perception of motion in film and video differs from the simplest notions of " persistence of vision ", with mention of the erroneous use of phi as a revised explanation.

This book examined the " Hitler cult " in Germany, how it was developed by Joseph Goebbels, what social groups the Hitler Myth appealed to and how it rose and fell.

Just prior to panicking about how he is going to die in the dungeon in Cardiff, the Doctor claims that he has seen the fall of Troy ( The Myth Makers, 1965 ), World War V and has " pushed boxes at the Boston Tea Party ".

" It doesn't matter how motivated students are ; what matters is how students are motivated " – Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation ," Chronicle of Higher Education

" Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions " – Homework Myth, chap.

Recently, and without apparent explanation of how he was resurrected, Nightmare was most recently seen tormenting Loki as part of a plan to garner greater powers in the The Terrorism Myth storyline.