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Bulfinchs Mythology - The Age of Chivalry and Legends of Charlemagne

By: Doubleday & Company

Type: Novel - Hardcover

Product Line: Fantasy Novels (Doubleday)

Last Stocked on 8/23/2020

Product Info

Title
Bulfinchs Mythology - The Age of Chivalry and Legends of Charlemagne
Category
Sub-category
Author
Thomas Bulfinch
Pages
470
Dimensions
6.5x9.5x1.5"
NKG Part #
2147606447
Type
Novel - Hardcover

Description

The stories are divided into three sections: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (first published in 1855); The Age of Chivalry (1858), which contains King Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon, and The Knights of English History; and Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages (1863). For the Greek myths, Bulfinch drew on Ovid and Virgil, and for the sagas of the north, from Mallet's Northern Antiquities. He provides lively versions of the myths of Zeus and Hera, Venus and Adonis, Daphne and Apollo, and their cohorts on Mount Olympus; the love story of Pygmalion and Galatea; the legends of the Trojan War and the epic wanderings of Ulysses and Aeneas; the joys of Valhalla and the furies of Thor; and the tales of Beowulf and Robin Hood.