He was born in Buenos Aires, moved to Canada in 1982, and now lives in France, where he has been named an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.First published in 1855, Bulfinch's Mythology has introduced generations of readers to the great myths of Greece and Rome, as well as time-honored legends of Norse mythology, medieval, and chivalric tales, Oriental fables, and more.
Alberto Manguel is an internationally acclaimed anthologist, translator, editor, and bestselling writer of several award-winning books, including A Dictionary of Imaginary Places and A History of Reading. "Without a knowledge of mythology," he wrote, "much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood or appreciated." He added: "We trust our young readers will find it a source of entertainment," and his trust seems to have been justified, judging from the many generations who have found his books an enthralling and loving introduction to the worlds of classical and medieval myth and legend. Thomas Bulfinch (1796-1867) was an American writer, Latinist, and banker who wrote and collected the first popular English-language retellings of Greek, Roman, Eastern, Scandinavian, Arthurian, and medieval myths in his famous three-volume compilation, Bulfinch's Mythology. Our book is an attempt to solve this problem, by telling the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement Book Details As Bulfinch wrote, Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.
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. For the Greek myths, Bulfinch drew on Ovid and Virgil, and for the sagas of the north, from Mallet's Northern Antiquities.
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 almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths and the age of chivalry have been known.
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