Politics & Social Sciences Kindle eBooks. Bulfinch's Mythology - Kindle edition by Bulfinch, Thomas.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Bulfinch's Mythology. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Our book is an attempt to solve this problem, by telling the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement. Bulfinch's Mythology - Kindle edition by Bulfinch, Thomas. As Bulfinch wrote, "Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. 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. 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. No new edition of Bulfinch's classic work can be considered complete without some notice of the American scholar to.
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