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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable

Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable

Bulfinch, Thomas

Paperback

Series: Stories of Gods and Heroes

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1721954473
ISBN13: 9781721954476
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 27 2018
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.51 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes by Thomas Bulfinch. Bulfinch's 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. The work was a highly successful popularization of Greek mythology for English-speaking readers. Carl J. Richard comments that it was one of the most popular books ever published in the United States and the standard work on classical mythology for nearly a century, until the release of classicist Edith Hamilton's 1942 Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. THE religions of ancient Greece and Rome are extinct. The so-called divinities of Olympus have not a single worshipper among living men. They belong now not to the department of theology, but to those of literature and taste. There they still hold their place, and will continue to hold it, for they are too closely connected with the finest productions of poetry and art, both ancient and modern, to pass into oblivion. We propose to tell the stories relating to them which have come down to us from the ancients, and which are alluded to by modern poets, essayists, and orators. Our readers may thus at the same time be entertained by the most charming fictions which fancy has ever created, and put in possession of information indispensable to every one who would read with intelligence the elegant literature of his own day. In order to understand these stories, it will be necessary to acquaint ourselves with the ideas of the structure of the universe which prevailed among the Greeks - the people from whom the Romans, and other nations through them, received their science and religion.

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