Bulfinch's Mythology
Greek, Roman, Norse, and Arthurian Legends: A Classical Mythology Guide and Literary Reference CompanionBy Thomas Bulfinch
Length34h 39m
About this audiobook
Bulfinch's Mythology is a wide-ranging anthology of classical, Norse, and medieval narratives, presenting the gods, heroes, monsters, and romances that have shaped Western literature. Incorporating material from The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne, Thomas Bulfinch retells inherited stories in lucid, dignified prose rather than offering a strictly antiquarian translation. His method is literary and comparative: myths are linked to painting, poetry, drama, and later cultural traditions, allowing readers to recognize their persistent influence. Written in the nineteenth-century tradition of cultivated popular education, the work stands between the scholarly compendium and the elegant literary handbook. Thomas Bulfinch (1796–1867) was a Boston writer and banker whose deep engagement with classical literature, art, and history informed his lifelong effort to make cultural knowledge accessible beyond academic circles. Educated at Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, he belonged to an era that regarded familiarity with mythology as essential to understanding English and American letters. His compilation reflects both Victorian moral seriousness and a democratic ambition: to provide general readers with the narratives and allusions necessary for intelligent participation in literary culture. This volume remains an especially valuable gateway for students, general readers, and writers seeking the narrative foundations of Western art and literature. Though modern scholarship may supplement or correct Bulfinch's Victorian framing, his clarity, organization, and sensitivity to literary echoes make the book an enduring introduction to mythic tradition and its afterlives.
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GenrePsychology
Length34 hrs 39 mins
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Publish dateNov 21, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Yale Classics (Vol. 2) (Annotated)
26THE MYRMIDONS
2INTRODUCTION
27NISUS AND SCYLLA—ECHO AND NARCISSUS—CLYTIE—HERO AND LEANDER
3ROMAN DIVINITIES
28NISUS AND SCYLLA
4PROMETHEUS AND PANDORA
29ECHO AND NARCISSUS
5APOLLO AND DAPHNE—PYRAMUS AND THISBE—CEPHALUS AND PROCRIS
30CLYTIE
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6APOLLO AND DAPHNE
31HERO AND LEANDER
7PYRAMUS AND THISBE
32MINERVA—NIOBE
8CEPHALUS AND PROCRIS
33MINERVA
9JUNO AND HER RIVALS, IO AND CALLISTO—DIANA AND ACTÆON—LATONA AND THE RUSTICS
34NIOBE
10CALLISTO
35THE GRÆÆ OR GRAY-MAIDS—PERSEUS—MEDUSA—ATLAS—ANDROMEDA
11DIANA AND ACTÆON
36THE GRÆÆ AND THE GORGONS
12LATONA AND THE RUSTICS
37PERSEUS AND MEDUSA
13PHAËTON
38PERSEUS AND ATLAS
14MIDAS—BAUCIS AND PHILEMON
39THE SEA-MONSTER
15BAUCIS AND PHILEMON
40THE WEDDING FEAST
16PROSERPINE—GLAUCUS AND SCYLLA
41MONSTERS
17GLAUCUS AND SCYLLA
42GIANTS, SPHINX, PEGASUS AND CHIMÆRA, CENTAURS, GRIFFIN, AND PYGMIES
18PYGMALION—DRYOPE—VENUS AND ADONIS—APOLLO AND HYACINTHUS
43THE SPHINX
19DRYOPE
44PEGASUS AND THE CHIMÆRA
20VENUS AND ADONIS
45THE CENTAURS
21APOLLO AND HYACINTHUS
46THE PYGMIES
22CEYX AND HALCYONE: OR, THE HALCYON BIRDS
47THE GRIFFIN, OR GRYPHON
23VERTUMNUS AND POMONA
48THE GOLDEN FLEECE—MEDEA
24CUPID AND PSYCHE
49THE GOLDEN FLEECE
25CADMUS—THE MYRMIDONS
50MEDEA AND ÆSON
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