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The Age of Fable; Or, Beauties of Mythology. by
Thomas Bulfinch
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The Age of Fable; Or, Beauties of Mythology. 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 book is a prose recounting of myths and stories from three eras: Greek and Roman mythology, King Arthur legends and medieval romances. Bulfinch intersperses the stories with his own commentary, and with quotations from writings by his contemporaries that refer to the story under discussion. This combination of classical elements and modern literature was novel for his time. Bulfinch expressly intended his work for the general reader. In the preface to The Age of Fable he states "Our work is not for the learned, nor for the theologian, nor for the philosopher, but for the reader of English literature, of either sex, who wishes to comprehend the allusions so frequently made by public speakers, lecturers, essayists, and poets, and those which occur in polite conversation
Media | Bøker Pocketbok (Bok med mykt omslag og limt rygg) |
Utgitt | 29. april 2017 |
ISBN13 | 9781546383369 |
Utgivere | Createspace Independent Publishing Platf |
Antall sider | 218 |
Mål | 203 × 254 × 12 mm · 439 g |
Språk | Engelsk |
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