The Golden Age of Myth & LegendWordsworth Editions, 1993 - 495 pagina's For over a hundred years Thomas Bulfinch's masterpiece on ancient myth and legend has been consulted by scholars and lay readers alike. The timeless stories of the gods and goddesses of Greece, Rome and Northern mythology are brought to life, and throughout the book Bulfinch shows, by extensive and resonant quotation, how these images have enormously enriched the development of English literature, from Byron to Shakespeare, from Keats and Milton to Wordsworth and Tennyson.In addition, there is a chapter on Eastern religion and myth, together with maps of the ancient world, a list of proverbial expressions, a 24-page glossary and index, and an index to the poetical quotations. |
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Inhoudsopgave
Introduction I | 1 |
Prometheus and Pandora II | 11 |
Apollo and Daphne Pyramus and Thisbe Cephalus and Procris | 18 |
Juno and her Rivals Io and Callisto Diana and Actaeon Latona and the Rustics | 26 |
Phaeton | 35 |
Midas Baucis and Philemon | 42 |
Proserpine Glaucus and Scylla | 48 |
Pygmalion Dryope Venus and Adonis Apollo and Hyacinthus | 57 |
The Rural Deities Erisichthon Rhoecus The Water Deities The Camenae The Winds | 152 |
Achelous and Hercules Admetus and Alcestis Antigone Penelope | 162 |
Orpheus and Eurydice Aristaeus Amphion Linus Thamyris Marsyas Melampus Musaeus | 169 |
Arion Ibycus Simonides Sappho | 178 |
Endymion Orion Aurora and Tithonus Acis and Galatea | 186 |
The Trojan War | 193 |
The Fall of Troy Return of the Greeks Orestes and Electra | 207 |
The Lotus Eaters The Cyclops Circe The Sirens Scylla and Charybdis Calypso | 214 |
Ceyx and Halcyone or the Halcyon Birds | 63 |
Vertumnus and Pomona | 69 |
Cupid and Psyche | 73 |
Cadmus The Myrmidons | 83 |
Nisus and Scylla Echo and Narcissus Clytie Hero and Leander | 89 |
Minerva and Arachne Niobe | 97 |
The Graeae or GreyMaids Perseus Medusa Atlas and Andromeda | 104 |
Giants The Sphinx Pegasus and The Chimaera Centaurs Pygmies The Griffin ΙΙΟ | 110 |
The Golden Fleece Medea and Aeson | 117 |
Meleager and Atalanta | 125 |
Hercules Hebe and Ganymede | 130 |
Theseus Daedalus Castor and Pollux | 138 |
Bacchus Ariadne | 146 |
The Phaeacians Fate of the Suitors | 223 |
Adventures of Aeneas The Harpies Dido Palinurus | 232 |
The Infernal Regions Elysium The Sibyl | 239 |
Opening the Gates of Janus Camilla Evander Nisus and Euryalus Mezentius Turnus | 248 |
Pythagoras Egyptian Deities Oracles | 258 |
Origin of Mythology Statues of Gods and Goddesses Poets of Mythology | 268 |
The Phoenix The Basilisk The Unicorn The Salamander | 282 |
Zoroaster Hindu Mythology Buddha The Grand Lama Prester John | 289 |
Northern Mythology | 298 |
The Druids Iona | 332 |
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Overige edities - Alles bekijken
The Golden Age of Myth & Legend: Being a Revised & Enlarged ..., Volume 45 Thomas Bulfinch Volledige weergave - 1915 |
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