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Mythologist

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my·thol·o·gy  (m-thl-j)
n. pl. my·thol·o·gies
1.
a. A body or collection of myths belonging to a people and addressing their origin, history, deities, ancestors, and heroes.
b. A body of myths associated with an event, individual, or institution: "A new mythology, essential to the . . . American funeral rite, has grown up" Jessica Mitford.
2. The field of scholarship dealing with the systematic collection and study of myths.
[French mythologie, from Late Latin mthologia, from Greek mthologi, story-telling : mthos, story + -logi, -logy.]
my·tholo·gist n.
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Noun1.mythologist - an expert on mythology
expert - a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully
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And the first mythologists seem not improperly to have joined Mars and Venus together; for all nations of this character are greatly addicted either to the love of women or of boys, for which reason it was thus at Lacedaemon; and many things in their state were done by the authority of the women.
A Treatise on Government by Aristotle View in context
Mythologists could well have made it the mouth of hell.
Round The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
"'Tis the simple manner," says Dodsley, 2 "in which the morals of Aesop are interwoven with his fables that distinguishes him, and gives him the preference over all other mythologists.
Fables by Aesop View in context
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