Bulfinch's Mythology The Age of Fable (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781492114031)

Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of general audience works by Latinist and banker Thomas Bulfinch, named after him and published after his death. 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 book is a prose recounting of myths and stories from three eras: Greek and Roman mythology, King Arthur legends, and medieval romances. The stories are interspersed with his own commentary and with quotations from the writings of Bulfinch's contemporaries which contain a reference to the story under discussion. This combination of classical elements and modern literature was novel for his time

Author: E. E. Hale
ISBN-10: 1492114030
ISBN-13: 9781492114031
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2013
Pages: 446
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.43lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.99d