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  • noun Plural form of mythographer.

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Examples

  • Edward Morris: The late Sid Fleischman was one of my favorite mythographers, in the Tall Tale category.

    Transcript: Mythic Fiction « Coyote Con 2010

  • Blagojevich has folks wondering if Illinois indeed is as corrupt as its mythographers would have us believe.

    How Corrupt Are We Exactly? Walter Jon Williams 2008

  • Hellenic mythographers said both Kore and Eurydice were detained in the underworld because they ate pomegranate seeds there.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

  • David Gates: "If you've ever hankered for the real lowdown on Mickey Mouse's creator and alter ego - it's worth the hankering, since he was one of America's most influential mythographers - Neal Gabler's Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination has it, sort of."

    GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/12. 2006

  • Blagojevich has folks wondering if Illinois indeed is as corrupt as its mythographers would have us believe.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Walter Jon Williams 2008

  • The mythographers are in this particular very ingenious, for they say that monstrous uncouth animals were produced in the time of the Giants war, the moon being out of its course, and not rising where it used to do.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • The mythographers are in this particular very ingenious, for they say that monstrous uncouth animals were produced in the time of the Giants war, the moon being out of its course, and not rising where it used to do.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • In contrast to the mythographers, the philosophers all believed the world to be everlasting, though the pres - ent condition of the world might come to an end.

    CYCLES GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • They are to be found, mainly, in moralizing works; there the gods are literally “reconstructed” from texts borrowed from late antique mythographers.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JEAN SEZNEC 1968

  • Mythologies, has not acted as a deterrent to would-be mythographers.

    MOTIF HARRY LEVIN 1968

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