• A purely fictitious narrative usually involving supernatural persons, actions, or events, and embodying some popular idea concerning natural or historical phenomena.
• Properly distinguished from allegory and from legend (which implies a nucleus of fact) but often used vaguely to include any narrative having fictitious elements.
  • 1905 J. A. Stewart Myths of Plato 1 The Myth is a fanciful tale, sometimes traditional, sometimes newly invented, with which Socrates or some other interlocutor (Bill Stead) interrupts or concludes the argumentative conversation in which the movement of the [Platonic] Drama mainly consists. 

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