Dover Thrift Editions: Literary Collections: Bulfinch's Greek and Roman Mythology : The Age of Fable (Paperback)

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More modern treatments of mythology might correct historical errors or fill in gaps in the stories, but this was a very interesting view of the early scholarly work in the field. Troy had not even ...

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No matter what other versions of the Greek myths you've read, there's a certain quaint charm to Bullfinch's take on the stories. Written in the 1850s, the book opens with a forward in which Bullfin...

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Bulfinch's Age of Fable is a classic reference work that lives up to its reputation. The book is packed with anecdotes of deities, monsters, and heroes, some of whom I had never heard of before. Th...

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Probably the most definitive book on Greek and Roman mythology, but don't try to read the book in one setting. Bullfinch does add Norse, Asian and Egyptian mythology as well, although those section...

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Bullfinch has written a sort of crib notes for The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, The Upanishads, The Vedas, plus information about myths without primary books, like the Druids. The information is...