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The Age of Fable; Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes.
de Bulfinch, Thomas
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Boston: Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin, 1855. Bulfinch originally published his now famous Mythology as three volumes: The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, published in 1855; The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur, published in 1858; and Legends of Charlemagne, or Romance of the Middle Ages, published in 1863. These original three works were posthumously combined into a single volume by Edward Everett Hale in 1881, who gave them the title Bulfinch's Mythology. The book is still in print and remains one of the most widely read popularizations of Greek mythology for English-speaking readers.
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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 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 contains King Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon, and The Knights of English History; and The Legends of Charlemagne or The 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. 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.
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- Título
- The Age of Fable; Or, Stories of Gods and Heroes.
- Autor
- Bulfinch, Thomas
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Editorial
- Sanborn, Carter, and Bazin
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston
- Fecha de publicación
- 1855
- Palabras clave
- The Age of Fable First Edition, Thomas Bulfinch First Edition
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