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1851 C. T. Newton in J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. App. xxi. 401 In the language of Greek mythography, the wave pattern and the Mæander are sometimes used singly for the idea of water.

1881 Academy 12 Nov. 359/2 One essential condition of mythography has been almost wholly neglected,—we mean the dualistic aspect of every myth in its relations to art and literature respectively.

1893 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 22 330 Polynesian mythography is a vast symbolism of origin and descent, and..constitutes the only basis of distinctive Polynesian ornament.

1882 Amer. Naturalist 16 829 (table) Anthropogeny... Observing and descriptive stage... Pneumatography, daimonology, mythography.

1955 Mod. Lang. Notes 70 481 This is an extremely esoteric bit of knowledge, not available in most Renaissance mythographies or classical dictionaries.

1982 M. Seymour-Smith Robert Graves xxv. 409 The White Goddess may not be very relevant, except in the matter of certain details, to mythography, or to anthropology.

1986 N.Y. Times 11 June d27/1 Someone who just six years ago was teaching college kids a course in Myths and Mythography in Renaissance Cultures.

1927 Amer. Hist. Rev. 33 211 The first volume of his [sc. Jacoby's] important Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker, which dealt with genealogy and mythography.

1951 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 12 321 Greek mythography..has been held responsible for..that systematic concern with the constitution and meaning of existence which is the essence of Greek philosophy.

1980 Christian Sci. Monitor 28 July 20/1 Almost everything he [sc. Picasso] drew entered the river of his own private mythography.

1995 Village Voice (N.Y.) 7 Mar. 28/2 A complex mythography instructs us that the working man is blunt, devout, virile, stoical, and ready to fight when wronged.