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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

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. The work was a highly successful popularization of Greek mythology for English-speaking readers. Carl J. 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.

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Thomas Bulfinch was an American writer born in Newton, Massachusetts, best known for the book Bulfinch's Mythology. Bulfinch belonged to a well-educated merchant family of modest means. His father wa...

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