Bulfinch's Mythology
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For almost a century and a half,Bulfinch's Mythologyhas 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 forerunner of such interpreters as Edith Hamilton and Robert Graves, Thomas Bulfinch wanted to make these stories available to the general reader. A series of private notes to himself grew into one of the single most useful and concise guides to literature and mythology.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 containsKing Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon,andThe Knights of English History;andThe Legends of CharlemagneorThe Romance of the Middle Ages(1863). For the Greek myths, Bulfinch drew on Ovid and Virgil, and for the sagas of the north, from...
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Bulfinch
Thomas - Language
- English
- Series
- Modern Library
- ISBN
- 9780679640011
- Release date
- 2004
