4/20/22

Good/Fair "? Wright Williams" "Goshen Mass"

duplicate ISBN?

Presente do Alessandro, jul/2021

Bulfinch's "The Age of Fable" is a compendium of mythology, and more complete than I would have ever imagined. But it read more like an encyclopedic description of the various gods rather than the telling of the original stories. That is, it was more a description of the original stories rather than the original legends themselves.
In describing the various gods, Bulfinch made frequent references to various works of classical literature and poetry which include references to the Greek and Roman gods, thereby making some of these more obscure references in more modern literature a little more understandable, at least in theory. However, I can't say I was familiar with any of those works of literature Bulfinch included, so any attempts to clarify these works were rather lost on me.
Of more interest to me was the authors inclusion of the stories of some of the humans or deities who, according to ancient legends, ended up being placed in the heavens as the constellations known to us as Ursa Major, Orion, Cassiopeia, Castor and Pollux, etc. I also found the description of some of the Norse gods interesting and a good refresher. ( )