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To some the word myth means lie. It's a myth. To others like Jung and Joseph Campbell the word myth means a collective and universal truth. The myth of diogenes is a story of a real Greek philosopher named Diogenes from Sinope on the Black Sea ....

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... does have Horation who represents one honest man in the rather rotten and dark Denmark of Shakespeare's play. Others have suggested that perhaps what the myth suggests is that we all must find an inner light in order to walk through the darkness of the world. In this interpretation, the search for the light of truth is an inward one rather than an outward one as the more traditional interpretation of the myth suggests. In this sense of the myth, Hamlet's outward dishonesty would not be a betrayal of his inner truth, and he would become a figure of light seeking to maintain that light in a dark and dangerous world. The myth of Sisyphus ...