This combination of classical elements and modern literature was novel for his time. Bulfinch intersperses the stories with his own commentary, and with quotations from writings by his contemporaries that refer to the story under discussion. The book is a prose recounting of myths and stories from three eras: Greek and Roman mythology, King Arthur legends and medieval romances. Richard comments that it was "one of the most popular books ever published in the United States and the standard work on classical mythology for nearly a century", until the release of classicist Edith Hamilton's 1942 Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. The work was a highly successful popularization of Greek mythology for English-speaking readers. "Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of general audience works by American Latinist and banker Thomas Bulfinch, named after him and published after his death in 1867. Loss to spine head, tear to spine, hinges repaired with tape, ink notes on second flyleaf. Bulfinch, Thomas The Age of Fable or, Stories of Gods and Heroes īoston: Sanborn, Carter, Bazin & Co., 1855.
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