Definition of Mythographer. Meaning of Mythographer. Synonyms of Mythographer

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Definition of Mythographer

Mythographer
Mythographer My*thog"ra*pher, n. [Gr. myqogra`fos; my^qos + gra`fein to write.] A composer of fables.

Meaning of Mythographer from wikipedia

- scholarly anthology of myths or of the study of myths generally. Key mythographers in the classical tradition include: Ovid (43 BCE–17/18 CE), whose tellings...
- Jacob Bryant (1715–1804) was an English scholar and mythographer, who has been described as "the outstanding figure among the mythagogues who flourished...
- Conon (Ancient Gr****: Κόνων, gen.: Κόνωνος) was a Gr**** grammarian and mythographer of the age of Augustus (who lived 63 BC – 14 AD), the author of a work...
- Vatican Mythographer, 1.57 (Ogden 2013b, pp. 73–74; Pepin, p. 36); Second Vatican Mythographer, 173 (Pepin, p. 171); Third Vatican Mythographer, 13.4 (Pepin...
- The so-called Vatican Mythographers (Latin: Mythographi Vaticani) are the anonymous authors of three Latin mythographical texts found together in a single...
- Orthros) or Orthus (Ancient Gr****: Ὄρθος, Orthos) was, according to the mythographer Apollodorus, a two-headed dog who guarded Geryon's cattle and was killed...
- mythographer's work, even when a discussion of such things would seem to fit his discussion.: 214  From a linguistic standpoint, the mythographer's unique...
- and Gaia, were the primeval parents. To Hesiod's twelve Titans, the mythographer Apollodorus, adds a thirteenth Titan, Dione, the mother of Aphrodite...
- three-headed guard-dog of the underworld, standing at his side. Roman-era mythographers eventually equated the Etruscan god Aita and the Roman gods Dis Pater...
- The anonymous Digby Mythographer was the compiler of a twelfth-century Fulgentian handbook of Gr**** mythology, De Natura deorum ("On the Nature of the...