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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age Of Fable
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Bulfinch's Mythology
Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of general audience works by Latinist and banker Thomas Bulfinch, named after him and published after his death in 1867. The work was a highly successful popularization of Greek mythology for English-speaking readers. The book is a prose recounting of myths and stories from three eras: Greek and Roman mythology, King Arthur legends and medieval romances. Bulfinch intersperses the stories with his own commentary, and with quotations from writings by his contemporaries that refer to the story under discussion. Bulfinch expressly intended his work for the general reader. In the preface to The Age of Fable he states "Our work is not for the learned, nor for the theologian, nor for the philosopher, but for the reader of English literature, of either sex, who wishes to comprehend the allusions so frequently made by public speakers, lecturers, essayists, and poets, and those which occur in polite conversation."
Bulfinch ́s Mythology
Reproduction of the original: Bulfinch ́s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
Bulfinch ́s Mythology
Reproduction of the original: Bulfinch ́s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
Bulfinch's Mythology
This work is a collection of general audience works by American Latinist and banker Thomas Bulfinch. The posthumous work was named after him and published in 1867. This work was a highly successful popularization of Greek mythology for English-speaking readers.
Bulfinch ́s Mythology
Reproduction of the original: Bulfinch ́s Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
Bulfinch's Mythology
For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity; Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths; and the age of chivalry have been known. The stories are divided into three sections: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (first published in 1855); The Age of Chivalry (1858), which contains King Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon, and The Knights of English History; and Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages (1863). For the Greek myths, Bulfinch drew on Ovid and Virgil, and for the sagas of the north, from Mallet's Northern Antiquities. He provides lively versi...
