Definition of Mythographers. Meaning of Mythographers. Synonyms of Mythographers

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Definition of Mythographers

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

Meaning of Mythographers 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...
- refer to a Second Vatican Mythographer and a Third Vatican Mythographer. Taken together, the works of the Vatican Mythographers provided a source-book of...
- Rajasthan. They traditionally worked as historians, genealogists and mythographers. The caste is also known as "Vahivancha Barots". The word Vahivancha...
- The later Vatican Mythographers repeat and expand upon the traditions of Servius and Fulgentius. All three Vatican Mythographers repeat Servius' derivation...
- 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...
- 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...
- Cupid in their own literature and art, and medieval and Renaissance mythographers conflate the two freely. In the Gr**** tradition, Eros had a dual, contradictory...
- The anonymous Digby Mythographer was the compiler of a twelfth-century Fulgentian handbook of Gr**** mythology, De Natura deorum ("On the Nature of the...
- again in what is thought to be the 7th century by the so-called Vatican Mythographers. All three writers borrow Fulgentius's methods in order to search the...