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Bulfinch’s Mythology

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  1. Publisher's Preface--Author's Preface

    16:44

  2. Introduction

    22:36

  3. Prometheus and Pandora

    18:31

  4. Apollo and Daphne--Pyramus and Thisbe--Cephalus and Procris

    20:55

  5. Juno and her Rivals, Io and Callisto--Diana and Actaeon--Latona and the Rustics

    25:16

  6. Phaeton

    18:00

  7. Midas--Baucis and Philemon

    15:19

  8. Proserpine--Glaucus and Scylla

    22:45

  9. Pygmalion--Dryope--Venus and Adonis--Apollo and Hyacinthus

    17:52

  10. Ceyx and Halcyone

    18:43

  11. Vertumnus and Pomona--Iphis and Anaxarete

    10:29

  12. Cupid and Psyche

    24:58

  13. Cadmus--The Myrmidons

    18:35

  14. Nisus and Scylla--Echo and Narcissus--Clytie--Hero and Leander

    19:59

  15. Minerva and Arachne--Niobe

    18:25

  16. The Graeae and Gorgons--Perseus and Medusa--Atlas--Andromed

    18:49

  17. Monsters: Giants--Sphinx--Pegasus and Chimaera--Centaurs--Griffin--Pygmies

    19:02

  18. The Golden Fleece--Medea

    19:01

  19. Meleager and Atalanta

    15:02

  20. Hercules--Hebe and Ganymede

    16:17

  21. Theseus and Daedalus--Castor and Pollux--Festivals and Games

    23:26

  22. Bacchus and Ariadne

    14:59

  23. The Rural Deities--The Dryads and Erisichthon--Rhoecus--Water Deities--Camenae--Winds

    28:43

  24. Achelous and Hercules--Admetus and Alcestis--Antigone--Penelope

    15:46

  25. Orpheus and Eurydice--Aristaeus--Amphion--Linus--Thamyris--Marsyas--Melampus --Musaeus

    16:00

  26. Arion--Ibycus--Simonides--Sappho

    20:30

  27. Endymion--Orion--Aurora and Tithonus--Acis and Galatea

    16:25

  28. The Trojan War

    41:28

  29. The Fall of Troy--Return of the Greeks--Orestes and Electra

    27:56

  30. Adventures of Ulysses--The Lotus-eaters--The Cyclopes--Circe--Sirens--Scylla and Charybdis--Calypso

    25:15

  31. The Phaeacians--Fate of the Suitors

    24:51

  32. Adventures of Aeneas--The Harpies--Dido--Palinurus

    16:45

  33. The Infernal Regions--The Sibyl

    30:41

  34. Aeneas in Italy--Camilla--Evander--Nisus and Euryalus --Mezentius--Turnus

    33:34

  35. Pythagoras--Egyptian Deities--Oracles

    30:11

  36. Origin of Mythology--Statues of Gods and Goddesses --Poets of Mythology

    23:51

  37. Monsters (modern)--The Phoenix--Basilisk--Unicorn--Salamander

    21:00

  38. Eastern Mythology--Zoroaster--Hindu Mythology--Castes--Buddha--The Grand Lama--Prester John

    20:17

  39. Northern Mythology--Valhalla--The Valkyrior

    19:35

  40. Thor's Visit to Jotunheim

    12:53

  41. The Death of Baldur--The Elves--Runic Letters--Skalds--Iceland--Teutonic Mythology--The Nibelungen Lied--Wagner's Nibelungen Ring

    28:35

  42. The Druids--Iona

    23:53

Bulfinch’s Mythology (1913) is a public domain work.

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Thomas Bulfinch set out to make the myths and legends of the past readable for ordinary people, stripping away the scholarly apparatus that kept them locked in Greek and Latin. This collection gathers his retellings of Greek and Roman mythology, the legends of King Arthur and his knights, and the medieval romances of Charlemagne, drawn from the three volumes he published in the 1850s and 1860s. He tells the stories in plain prose and threads them with lines from English poets, showing how deeply the old tales run through later literature. For generations it served as many readers' first door into classical and medieval myth. Free to download as a PDF and EPUB.

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Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch (1796-1867) was an American writer and bank clerk from Boston who devoted his leisure to making classical and medieval stories accessible to general readers. Largely self-directed as a scholar, he is remembered almost entirely for the mythological retellings later gathered under his name.

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First published
1855
Reading time
About 24 hours
Pages
932
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Lizzie Driver, Alison Raouf, Graham Redman and others