The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art, Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855): Accompanied by an Interpretative and Illustrative CommentaryAn illustrated anthology of classical myths, based on Bulfinch's nineteenth-century "Age of Fable," examining myths of divinities and heroes, and including commentary. |
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... Diana ( Artemis ) . Jonson's Hymn to Cynthia . Venus ( Aphrodite ) . The " Venus of Milo . " Mercury ( Hermes ) . Vesta ( Hestia ) . The Lesser Divinities of Heaven . 18 CHAPTER III . THE GODS OF EARTH 42 Conception of the World . Ceres ...
... Diana ( Artemis ) . Jonson's Hymn to Cynthia . Venus ( Aphrodite ) . The " Venus of Milo . " Mercury ( Hermes ) . Vesta ( Hestia ) . The Lesser Divinities of Heaven . 18 CHAPTER III . THE GODS OF EARTH 42 Conception of the World . Ceres ...
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... Diana . The Flight of Arethusa . Shelley's Arethusa . The Fate of Acteon . The Fortunes and Death of Orion . The Pleiads . Endymion . Myths of Venus . Adonis . Cupid and Psyche . Keats ' Ode to Psyche . Atalanta's Race . Hero and ...
... Diana . The Flight of Arethusa . Shelley's Arethusa . The Fate of Acteon . The Fortunes and Death of Orion . The Pleiads . Endymion . Myths of Venus . Adonis . Cupid and Psyche . Keats ' Ode to Psyche . Atalanta's Race . Hero and ...
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Contents
Purpose of the Study The Fable and the Myth Origin of the World | 16 |
THE GODS OF HEAVEN | 25 |
THE GODS OF EARTH | 43 |
THE GODS OF THE UNDERWORLD | 49 |
THE GODS OF THE WATERS | 55 |
THE ROMAN DIVINITIES | 59 |
MYTHS OF THE GREAT DIVINITIES | 152 |
FROM THE EARTH TO THE UNDER | 159 |
THE HOUSE OF LABDACUS | 261 |
HOUSES CONCERNED IN THE TROJAN | 269 |
THE TROJAN WAR | 277 |
THE FALL OF TROY | 307 |
The Fall of Troy The Death of Achilles Contest for the Arms of Achilles | 317 |
ADVENTURES OF ÆNEAS | 345 |
THE WAR BETWEEN TROJANS | 362 |
MYTHS OF THE NORSE GODS | 373 |
Myths of Ceres Pluto and Proserpine The Rape of Proserpine | 165 |
MYTHS OF THE LESSER DIVINITIES | 172 |
MYTHS OF THE LESSER DIVINITIES | 181 |
MYTHS OF LESSER DIVINITIES OF | 198 |
The Older and the Younger Heroes The Genealogy of Danaüs | 225 |
THE FAMILY OF ÆOLUS | 229 |
THE FAMILY OF ATOLUS AND | 237 |
The Calydonian Hunt Merope Castor and Pollux The Twin Brethren | 243 |
THE HOUSE OF CECROPS AND ERICH | 249 |
MYTHS OF NORSE AND OLD GER | 398 |
THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG | 410 |
Wagners Tetralogy The Rhinegold The Valkyrie Siegfried | 419 |
PART II | 431 |
THE DISTRIBUTION OF MYTHS | 447 |
COMMENTARY | 465 |
RULES FOR PRONUNCIATION | 541 |
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