mythography

[ mi-thog-ruh-fee ]

noun

, plural my·thog·ra·phies.

1. a written collection of myths.
2. expression of myths in artistic, especially plastic, form.
3. description of myths.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mythography¹

From the Greek word mȳthographía, dating back to 1850–55. See mytho-, -graphy

Example Sentences

Her novels and memoirs are noirish, lean and intellectually chewy — good to glut on if only to marvel at her private mythography, how her obsessions crop up and combine in each book: swimming and swimming pools, jellyfish, women with “snarled teeth,” little coffins.

From New York Times

In 1961, he published “The Legacy of the Civil War,” a powerful study in mythography that cast the Lost Cause as a fiction deleterious to those who cherish it, converting “defeat into victory, defects into virtues.”

From The New Yorker

If she’s going to be studied, he wrote, it should be to analyse and deconstruct the mythography, not to add to it.

From The Guardian

The mythography of voting has conditioned us to treat mediocrity as superior.

From Salon

Ricketts was a Socrates to these bibulous symposia, making a profound impression not only on Steinbeck, but also on fellow novelist Henry Miller and the young Joseph Campbell, just finding his way into mythography.

From Nature