Thomas Bulfinch’s goal was to make the ancient myths accessible to a wide audience, and so it is suitable for children. It contains many Greek and Roman myths, including simplified versions of The Iliad and The Odyssey, as well as a selection of Norse and “eastern” myths.

This is a recording of the tenth edition of the first volume, The Age of Fable. Bulfinchs Mythology offers approachable accounts of ancient legends in a compilation of the works of Thomas Bulfinch, banker and Latinist.

AVAILABLE ON CASSETTE AND CD, OR CLICK BELOW TO DOWNLOAD THIS BOOK FROM AUDIBLE. It consists of three volumes: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne. Thomas Bulfinch introduces us to the gods of the Greek, Roman and Norse. Bulfinchs Mythology is a collection of general audience works by American Latinist and banker Thomas Bulfinch, named after him and published after his death in 1867. 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.Download cover art Download CD case insert Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fableīulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. Bulfinchs Mythology is a collection of general audience works by.The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, p. 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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