![]() He notes that without some background in mythology, the allusions of the famous poets will simply whizz over a reader's head, and also adds that despite its pagan beginnings, mythology contains pure and valuable moral lessons. Written in the 1850s, the book opens with a forward in which Bullfinch attempts to argue the value of mythology. He provides lively versions of the myths of Zeus and Hera, Venus and Adonis, Daphne and Apollo, and their cohorts on Mount Olympus the love story of Pygmalion and Galatea the legends of the Trojan War and the epic wanderings of Ulysses and Aeneas the joys of Valhalla and the furies of Thor and the tales of Beowulf and Robin Hood." - Book jacketĪ beautiful gift edition of Thomas Bulfinch's classic retelling of famous myths and folk legends, with interpretive essays by Princeton classics professor Richard P.No matter what other versions of the Greek myths you've read, there's a certain quaint charm to Bullfinch's take on the stories. For the Greek myths, Bulfinch drew on Ovid and Virgil, and for the sagas of the north, from Mallet's Northern Antiquities. 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 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. Book digitized by Google from the library of the New York Public Library and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
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