mythographer

Examples

• All

• Such a scholarly accomplishments have established her as one of the great mythographers of our time.

• Banier and other mythographers reduced pagan myths to rationalistic and euhemerist explanations by factual and historical methods.

  Academic text (1994)

• He is stressing the presence of the mythographer who positions the Zuni storytellers in certain ways, and whose interpretation of the situation will partly depend on a subjective interpretation of the stories produced in the context of his presence.

  Academic text (1991)

• It is not the reading matter assigned for Course 301 but a line of Erasmus of Rotterdam, or Spenser, or Dante, or some obscure mythographer of the fourteenth century, which will "light our candle," and it is mostly where we have no business to seek that we shall find.

  Academic text (2011)

• The renowned mythographer published a collection of ancient tales that explore the origins of various cultures.

• At the conference, the mythographer discussed the significance of traditional stories in modern society.

• Many students aspire to become mythographers, eager to study the legends and folklore of different civilizations.

Synonyms

M

mythologist

vsmythographer

• Specialized

1 7.9

A person who studies traditional stories and legends

focuses on collecting and writing about myths rather than general expertise

How Scholarly

scholar

290 4.1

mythologist

• Specialized

1 7.9

mythographer

• Specialized

1 9.6

folklorist

4 6.9

collector

163 3.0

popularizer

1 5.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology