What one reviewer said about Bulfinch's Mythology, the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch, E. E. Hale:
Here's a book to add to your Cultural Mythology book collection.
A wonderful resource full of entertaining stories about the Gods, Demigods and Demons of mythology!
The tales are eminently readable. As Bulfinch wrote, "Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. . . . 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."
Stories included are: Prometheus and Pandora, Apollo and Daphne, Juno and Her Rivals, Phaeton, Midas, Proserpine, Pygamalion, Ceyx and Halcyone, Vertumnus and Pomona, Cupid and Psyche, Cadmus, Nisus and Scylla, Minerva, The Graeae and Gorgons, Monsters, Jason and the Golden Fleece, Meleager and Atalanta, Hercules, Theseus, Bacchus and Ariadne, Rural Deities, Achelous and Hercules, Orpheus and Eurydice, Arion, Endymion and much, much more!
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