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- adjective Of or pertaining to
mythography .
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Examples
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Along the way, there is much stern tail-chasing through the sort of Hamlet's Mill kind of mythographic underbrush one gets nowadays -- René Guénon, Frances Yates, and Karl Kerényi all get shout-outs, and there's a whole chapter forbiddingly titled "The Tantric Thread."
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2005
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Robert Dyer in The Classical World (December 1974) called my book an "outstanding job in tracking down Mary Renault's historical, mythographic, and religious sources," and The Year's Work in English Studies commended the book's "scholarly approach."
Waxing Lyric Dick, Bernard F. 1979
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The latter is the more probable case, for we find Daphne late, in artificial or mythographic literature, in Ovid and Hyginus.
Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878
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Cicero's De natura deorum) the first mythographic texts to come out in print are those which were known to the Middle Ages, or the medieval compilations them - selves.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JEAN SEZNEC 1968
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