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...
- 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...
- Conon (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 titled...
- The anonymous Digby Mythographer was the compiler of a twelfth-century Fulgentian handbook of Gr**** mythology, De Natura deorum ("On the Nature of the...
- to the metamorphosis of Cyparissus. According to one of the Vatican Mythographers, another Roman tradition makes the lover out to be the woodland god...
- CH, DBE, FRSL, FBA (born 9 November 1946) is an English historian, mythographer, art critic, novelist and short story writer. She is known for her many...
- Megara and Heracles' children vary based on the author. According to the mythographer Apollodorus, Megara was the mother of three sons by Heracles named Therimachus...
- Jacob Bryant (1715–1804) was an English scholar and mythographer, who has been described as "the outstanding figure among the mythagogues who flourished...
- his sister-wife, the Titaness Tethys. However, according to the Roman mythographer Hyginus, she was the daughter of Nox ("Night", the Roman equivalent of...