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单词 mythographer
释义

mythographern.

Brit. /mᵻˈθɒɡrəfə/, U.S. /məˈθɑɡrəfər/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek μυθογράϕος , -er suffix1.
Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek μυθογράϕος ( < ancient Greek μυθο- mytho- comb. form + -γράϕος -graph comb. form) + -er suffix1; compare -grapher comb. form. Compare later mythograph n.
A writer, narrator, or collector of myths.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > mythology > [noun] > relating or constructing myths > one who
mythologer1604
mythologist1608
mythologizer1641
mythographer1660
myth-maker1856
mythopoeist1873
mythopoet1876
mythograph1891
1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 20 Those Mythographers, who..feigned three women who made use of one Eye amongst them.
1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. vi. 72 Many of the first Mythographers confound the Universal Deluge, with that particular Floud of Deucalion.
1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. Emend. sig. e3 Fulgentius, Boccacio's favorite mythographer.
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. vi. 208 The genealogy just given of Œneus..seems to have been followed generally by the mythographers.
1891 Classical Rev. 5 457/2 Apollodorus (the Mythographer).
1914 W. R. M. Lamb Clio Enthroned 93 Another good instance of this jerky, piecemeal style is provided by a fragment of the mythographer Pherecydes.
1937 D. Bush Mythol. & Romantic Trad. in Eng. Poetry i. 25 Of the numerous prose works of..mythology which carried on..the tradition of the Renaissance mythographers, I might mention two.
1990 J. Berman Narcissism & Novel i. 5 Little is revealed about Narcissus' childhood—Ovid is a mythographer, not an analyst.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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