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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911): Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)Bulfinch, Thomas

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The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911): Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)

Name: The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911): Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)
Author: Bulfinch, Thomas

Bulfinch, Thomas

English poetry; Mythology, Classical; Mythology, Norse

The Fall of Troy. The Death of Achilles. Contest for the Arms of
  Achilles. Paris and [OE]none. The Palladium. The Wooden Horse.
  Laocoön and the Serpents. The Death of Priam. The Survivors. Helen,
  Menelaüs, and Agamemnon. Electra and Orestes. Orestes pursued by
  the Furies. His Purification.

  CHAPTER XXIV. THE WANDERINGS OF ULYSSES                            318

  From Troy to Phæacia. The Lotos-eaters. The Cyclopes. The Bag of
  Winds. The Læstrygonians. The Isle of Ææa. Ulysses visits Hades.
  The Sirens. Scylla and Charybdis. The Cattle of the Sun. Calypso's
  Island. The Land of the Phæacians. Fate of the Suitors. Tennyson's
  Ulysses.

  CHAPTER XXV. ADVENTURES OF ÆNEAS                                   346

  From Troy to Italy. The Departure from Troy. The Promised Empire.
  The Harpies. Epirus. The Cyclopes Again. The Resentment of Juno.
  The Sojourn at Carthage. Dido. Palinurus. Italy at Last. The Sibyl
  of Cumæ. The Infernal Regions. The Elysian Fields. The Valley of
  Oblivion.

  CHAPTER XXVI. THE WAR BETWEEN TROJANS AND LATINS                   362

  The Fulfillment of Prophecy. The Gates of Janus Opened. Camilla.
  Alliance with Evander. The Site of Future Rome. Turnus attacks the
  Trojan Camp. Nisus and Euryalus. The Death of Mezentius. The Deaths
  of Pallas and Camilla. The Final Conflict.

  CHAPTER XXVII. MYTHS OF THE NORSE GODS                             373

  The Creation. Yggdrasil. Odin and his Valhalla. The Valkyries. Thor
  and the Other Gods. Loki and his Progeny. The Conflict with the
  Mountain Giants. The Recovery of Thor's Hammer. Thor's Visit to
  Jötunheim. The Sword of Freyr. The Death of Balder. The Funeral of
  Balder. The Elves. Ragnarok.

  CHAPTER XXVIII. MYTHS OF NORSE AND OLD GERMAN HEROES               398

  The Saga of the Volsungs. The Lay of the Nibelungs.

  CHAPTER XXIX. THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG                             410

  Wagner's Tetralogy. The Rhine-gold. The Valkyrie. Siegfried. The
  Twilight of the Gods.

  PART II

  THE HISTORY OF MYTH

  CHAPTER XXX. THE ORIGIN AND ELEMENTS OF MYTH                       431

  Kinds of Myth. Divisions of Inquiry. Elements of the Myth.
  Reasonable Myths. Unreasonable Myths. Theory of Deterioration.
  Theory of Progress.

  CHAPTER XXXI. THE DISTRIBUTION OF MYTHS                            447

  Theories of Resemblance.

  CHAPTER XXXII. THE PRESERVATION OF MYTHS                           450

  Traditional History. In Greece. Roman Poets of Mythology. Records
  of Norse Mythology. Records of German Mythology. Records of
  Oriental Mythology: Egyptian. Indian Records. Persian Records.

  COMMENTARY                                                         465

  RULES FOR PRONUNCIATION                                            541

  INDEX OF MYTHOLOGICAL SUBJECTS AND SOURCES                         543

  INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS AND ARTISTS                                582




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