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.

Myth, then is always an account of a " creation "; it related how something was produced, began to be.

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.

* Kjos, Berit Narnia: Blending Truth and Myth, Kjos Ministries, 2005

* Winterson, Jeanette, Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles, Canongate U. S. ( 2005 ).

* The Myth ( 2005 )-The film starred Jackie Chan as Meng Yi, a military general serving under Qin Shi Huang.

* The Myth ( 2010 )-a Chinese TV series produced by Jackie Chan and based on the 2005 film of the same title.

* A 2005 scholarly article about the geological changes around Sybaris, which reports evidence of subsidence and repeated alluvial deposition since Greek times, " Geology versus Myth: the Holocene Evolution of the Sybaris Plain " by Luigi Cucci

* Marin, P. " Cato the Younger: Myth and Reality ", Ph. D ( unpublished ), UCD, 2005

* Allan, Tony, Charles Phillips, and John Chinnery, Land of the Dragon: Chinese Myth, Duncan Baird Publishers, London, 2005 ( through Barnes & Noble Books ), ISBN 0-7607-7486-2

Corris's most recent publications include: Conceptual Art: Theory, Myth and Practice ( Cambridge University Press, 2004 ), monographs on David Diao ( TimeZone8 Books, Beijing, 2005 ) and Ad Reinhardt ( Reaktion Books, London, 2008 ), Non-Relational Aesthetics ( Artwords Press, 2008 )( with Dr Charlie Gere ), and Art, Word and Image: 2, 000 Years of Visual / Textual Interaction ( Reaktion Books, London, 2010 )( with John Dixon Hunt and David Lomas ).

* Edwards, David ( 2005 ) Guardians of Power: The Myth of the Liberal Media Pluto Press

* Gregory J. Bishop, Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth, Paraview Pocket Books, 2005 ; ISBN 0-7434-7092-3

** Myth & Christianity: An Inquiry Into The Possibility Of Religion Without Myth, translation 1958 by Noonday Press, Prometheus Books, 2005, ISBN 1-59102-291-6.

In 2005, Sherawat acted in The Myth, a Chinese film, co-starring with Jackie Chan.

In 2005, a book was published in Spanish by Aparicio and Esteban titled The Pyramids of Güímar: Myth and Reality.

On June 28, 2005, Twiztid released its fourth studio album, Man's Myth ( Vol.

* Man's Myth ( 2005 )

* Dr Roy A. Clouser, now retired, has done much to popularise Reformational philosophy with his The Myth of Religious Neutrality ( 1st edn 1991 ; revd edn 2005 ).

* The Myth of Religious Neutrality ( University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, 1st edn 1991 ; 2nd edn 2005 ).

* 2005: John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed

Transformations of a Myth, Taylor & Francis Ltd. 2005, ISBN 0-415-35761-6

* Meditation without Myth: What I Wish They'd Taught Me in Church about Prayer, Meditation, and the Quest for Peace ( Crossroad Publishing Co., 2005, ISBN 0-8245-2308-3 ).

* The Myth ( 2005 )

In his 2005 book The Myth of Hitler's Pope, the historian and rabbi David G. Dalin countered Cornwell.

His books include Against the Law ( with Pierre Schlag and Steven D. Smith, 1996 ), a collection of essays regarding legal thought in contemporary America ; Jurismania ( 1998 ), a scathing critique of the American legal system ; and The Diet Myth ( 2005 ) ( previously published as The Obesity Myth in 2004 ), an expose of the hysteria surrounding weight and health in the Western world today.