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mythographic, a.|mɪθəʊˈgræfɪk|
[f. mythography + -ic.]
Of or pertaining to the representation of mythical subjects in art, literature, etc. So mythoˈgraphical a.
1939Tillyard & Lewis Personal Heresy v. 120 Between Aristotle and the modern mythographical school of Miss Maud Bodkin, Professor Wilson Knight, and Professor D. G. Jame, we find almost nothing. 1955R. Graves Crowning Privilege iii. 42 The death of Marvan's pig is a mythographic way of recording the murder of inspired poetry by a new-fangled academicism. 1965Listener 2 Dec. 902/1 A mythographic fantasy The Complaint of Nature, diffuse and heady with virtuoso language. 1968J. A. W. Bennett Chaucer's Book of Fame i. 17 The attraction of this mythographical tradition for Chaucer results in a Venus very different from the divinity he had found described in the Roman de la Rose. |