The Classic Myths
by Charles Mills Gayley
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About this eBook
- Author
- Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796-1867
- Title
- The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)
- Credits
- Produced by Richard Tonsing, Jonathan Ingram, The Internet Archive/American Libraries and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism
- Subject
- Mythology, Norse
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 46063
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46063
- Release Date
- June 21, 2014
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE CLASSIC MYTHS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE AND IN ART BASED ORIGINALLY ON BULFINCH'S "AGE OF FABLE" (1855) ACCOMPANIED BY AN INTERPRETATIVE AND ILLUSTRATIVE COMMENTARY
- 2.TO THE MUSES
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS
- 7.INTRODUCTION THE STUDY OF MYTHOLOGY IN CONNECTION WITH ENGLISH POETRY AND WITH ART — SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS — FOOTNOTES:
- 8.PART I MYTHS OF DIVINITIES AND HEROES — CHAPTER I GREEK MYTHS OF THE CREATION — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER II THE GODS OF HEAVEN [16] — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER III THE GODS OF EARTH [41] — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER IV THE GODS OF THE UNDERWORLD [44] — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER V THE GODS OF THE WATERS [57] — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER VI THE ROMAN DIVINITIES — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER VII MYTHS OF THE GREAT DIVINITIES OF HEAVEN — THE LAMENT FOR ADONIS [125] — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER VIII MYTHS OF THE GREAT DIVINITIES OF EARTH — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER IX FROM THE EARTH TO THE UNDERWORLD — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER X MYTHS OF NEPTUNE, RULER OF THE WATERS — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XI MYTHS OF THE LESSER DIVINITIES OF HEAVEN — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XII MYTHS OF THE LESSER DIVINITIES OF EARTH, ETC. — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XIII MYTHS OF LESSER DIVINITIES OF THE WATERS — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XIV MYTHS OF THE OLDER HEROES: THE HOUSE OF DANAÜS, AND ITS CONNECTIONS — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XV THE FAMILY OF ÆOLUS — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XVI THE FAMILY OF ÆTOLUS AND ITS CONNECTIONS — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XVII THE HOUSE OF MINOS — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XVIII THE HOUSE OF CECROPS AND ERICHTHONIUS — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XIX THE HOUSE OF LABDACUS — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XX MYTHS OF THE YOUNGER HEROES: THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XXI HOUSES CONCERNED IN THE TROJAN WAR — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XXII THE TROJAN WAR — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XXIII THE FALL OF TROY — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XXIV THE WANDERINGS OF ULYSSES — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XXV ADVENTURES OF ÆNEAS — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XXVI THE WAR BETWEEN TROJANS AND LATINS — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XXVII MYTHS OF THE NORSE GODS [364] — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XXVIII MYTHS OF NORSE AND OLD GERMAN HEROES — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XXIX THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG — FOOTNOTES:
- 9.PART II THE HISTORY OF MYTH. — CHAPTER XXX THE ORIGIN AND ELEMENTS OF MYTH — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XXXI THE DISTRIBUTION OF MYTHS — FOOTNOTES: — CHAPTER XXXII THE PRESERVATION OF MYTHS — FOOTNOTES:
- 10.COMMENTARY [422] — FOOTNOTES:
- 11.A FEW RULES FOR THE ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION OF GREEK AND LATIN PROPER NAMES
- 12.INDEX OF MYTHOLOGICAL SUBJECTS AND THEIR SOURCES
- 13.INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS AND ARTISTS
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