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my·thog·ra·phy  (m-thgr-f)
n. pl. my·thog·ra·phies
1. The artistic representation of mythical subjects.
2. A collection of myths, often with critical commentary.
mythography
1. the collecting of myths.
2. the recording of myths in writing.
3. a critical collection of myths. — mythographer, mythographist, n.
See also: Mythology
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It is quite likely that in addition to Ovid's text, Cervantes had read the mythographers that cited this work.
Sancho as a thief of time and art: Ovid's Fasti and Cervantes' Don ... by de Armas, Frederick A. / Renaissance Quarterly
My theme is simply the remarkable commonality both in the way these writers worked with myths, as mythologers and not mere mythographers, and in the meanings to which their myths point; and, finally, what lessons all this may have for us.
"Deep lies the sea-longing": inklings of home (1) by Huttar, Charles A. / Mythlore
With Alan Cameron's recent book hot off the press, alongside substantial studies of Parthenius and Conon's Diegeseis, (4) the path is broken for a thorough survey of Apollodorus, Antoninus Liberalis and the fragmentary mythographers and local historians of the period, both literary and epigraphic.
Edmund P. Cueva: The Myths of Fiction. Studies in the Canonical Greek ... by Whitmarsh, Tim / Ancient Narrative
 
 
 
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