mythographer

or my·thog·ra·phist

[ mi-thog-ruh-fer ]

noun

1. a person who collects or records myths in writing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mythographer¹

1650–60; < Greek mȳthográph ( os ) mythographer ( mytho-, -graph ) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Gender studies scholar Jane Caputi wrote that Dr. Stade was “a mythographer and propagandist of sexual murder” and later said that his novel anticipated a 1989 mass killing in Montreal, in which a man ran into a college classroom, shouted, “You’re all . . . feminists!” and opened fire, killing 14 women before also killing himself.

From Washington Post

Peterson is a controversial Canadian psychologist and mythographer, whose recent bestseller, 12 Rules for Life, urges disillusioned young men to “take responsibility”.

From The Guardian

Photograph: Photograph: Linda Nylind Marina Warner Writer, historian and mythographer I hope to have a quiet time at home this summer, but I’ll go to Venice to see the Biennale, with a week in Paris.

From The Guardian

Carroll Dunham Gladstone Gallery 515 West 24th Street Chelsea I wish the poet and speculative mythographer Robert Graves could see Carroll Dunham’s exciting new paintings.

From New York Times

The historian and mythographer Adrienne Mayor argues that the image of the monstrous Ceto on an ancient krater was based on the fossil skulls of the extinct species Giraffokeryx, emerging from the Miocene sediments covering large areas on the Greek peninsula and islands.

From Scientific American