Laura Endress, Les trajectoires textuelles de l’Hercule médiéval : de la mythographie à l’historiographie et au-delà. Avec édition critique partielle du livre IX de l’Ovide moralis... by Laura Endress

“…Texts examined include, on the one hand, Latin commentaries on the Classics – on the Metamorphoses in particular – and related mythographic treatises, and, on the other, vernacular historiographical compilations, which evolved in close relation to works of historical romance. …”
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In and Out of the Frame: The Construction of Meaning in Henry Peacham’s Minerva Britanna (1612) by Cezara Bobeica

“…The superposition of elements on the page is coupled with a variety of explicit and implicit sources mainly taken from the Bible, from political and moral treatises, ancient authors, bestiaries and from mythographic dictionaries. The analysis of the intertextual and intermedial relations will show the semantic process which results from embedding frames. …”
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“Como la luz de la fe te falte”: the privileging of the Christian over the pagan in Calderón’s El divino Orfeo (1634) by Czepiel, ME

“…I begin this study by discussing how contemporary mythographers dealt with the delicate balance of synthesising the pagan and Christian narratives while affirming the truth of the latter, as well as Calderón’s own defence of the allegorical use of fable. …”

The four elements of nature and narrative: from antiquity to neo-mythological Russian drama by New, KA

“…In my thesis I adopt an intertextual approach to Russian drama in relation to Ancient Greek and Roman epic, dramatic, elegiac and mythographic traditions, which are represented as a single mythological hypertext. …”

Methodology of Criticism of Egyptian and Phoenician Mythologies by Eusebius of Caesarea in the Treatise “Praeparatio evangelica” by Priest Dmitry Yu. Degtyarev

“…With the help of quotes from ancient mythographers, the apologist demonstrates how ancient people came to the deification of natural phenomena from simply observing the sky and trying to describe the world around them. …”
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Delineating the Gawain-poet: myth, desire, and visuality by Hu, H

“…</p> <p>The thesis starts by tracing a network of ideas about gaze, sin, body and text through late-medieval biblical and mythographical texts and images. Working text-by-text through the poet’s oeuvre, it then discusses the use of Ovidian materials and the motif of metamorphosis in his complex meditation on ethical and specifically gendered practices of reading, writing and looking. …”

Creation and chaos: myth and ideology in the ancient Near East and the Bible by Krijgsman, M

“…Separately, the agency of mythographers and their original audience is reemphasised against universalist readings; myths are explicitly framed as deliberate and actively-composed texts. …”

AN ECOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF CIRCE BY MADELINE MILLER: RECONSTRUCTING THE RELATIONS AMONG DIFFERENT FORMS OF BEINGS THROUGH FIGURATIVE RECONCEPTUALIZATIONS by Banu AKÇEŞME, Çağrı ŞARLAR

“…In this sense Circe can be described as a "female epic" or a "mythographic metafiction" (Nunes, 2014, pp. 231-232). …”
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