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The Age of Fable: Or, Beauties of Mythology (Classic Reprint)
The Age of Fable Or Beauties of Mythology - Classic Reprint Author:Thomas Bulfinch If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful bet thai — wnich helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in — society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation. But if — that which tends to make us happier and better can be called use — ful, then we claim that epithet for our subject. For Mythology — is the handmaid of liter... more »ature ; and literature is one of the best
allies of virtue and promoters of happiness.
Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant litera
ture of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
When Byron calls Rome "the Xiobe of nations," or aays of
Venice, " She looks a Sea-CybeJe fresh from ocean," he calls up to
the mind of one familiar with our subject illustrations more vivid
and striking than the pencil could furnish, but which are lost to
the reader ignorant of mytho
Table of Contents
I - lntroduction ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?; II - Prometheus and Pandora ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?; Ill - Apollo and Daphne - Pyramus and ThisbeCephalus; and rrocris ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?; IV - Juno and her Rivals, Io Gnd Callisto - Diana; snd Actreon - Latona and the Rustics ? ? ?; V - PhaUon ? ? ? ? ? ? ? til ? ? ? ? ?; VI - Midas - Baucis and Philemon ? ? ? ? ? ?; Vil - Proserpine - Olaucus and Scylla ? ? ? ? ?; VIIL -- Pygmalion - Dryope - Venus and AdonisApollo; and Hyacinthus ? ? ? ? ? ? ?; 11; 24; 34; 4f; 69; 69; 78; 91; IX - CC)~ and Halcyone ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 100; X - Vertumnus and Pomona - Iphis and Anu; areta ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?; XI - Cupid and l-'syche ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?; Xli - Cadmus - The Myrmidons ? ? ? ? ? ? ?; XlII - Nisus and Scylla - Echo and NnrciDrus - C~ytie; - Hero and Le:mder ? ? ? · ·; XlV - :finerva and Arachne - Niobe ? ? ? ? ?; XV -The Gr~ and Gorgons - Perseus and Medusa; ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ·; 109; 116; 129;« less