Bulfinch's Age Of Fable
Complete List Of All Chapters And Sub-Pages
- AuthorsPreface
- Comus. A Masque by John Milton
- On the Morning of the Nativity
- Paradise Lost and Regained by John Milton
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- Artegal and Elidure by William Wordsworth
- Ariosto: Critical Notice of his Life and Genius
- Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- The Prophecy of Capys by Thomas Babbington Macaulay
- The Edges of the Earth in Greek and Roman Thought
- Pronunciation Guide
- The Roman Pronunciation of Latin
- A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
- Creation Stories
- Josephus's Discourse to The Greeks Concerning Hades
- The Greek View of Life by Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
- Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism
- The Works and Days and
Theogony
- Chapter 2: Prometheus and Pandora
- The Bundahishn: Creation or Knowledge from the Zand
- Creation and Its Records, by B.H. Baden-Powel
- Enuma Elish: The Epic of Creation
- Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte
- The Story Of Prometheus
- Prometheus Bound
- The Revolt of the Titans
- Chaos theory
- Paradise Lost and Regained
- Deucalion and Pyrrha
- Messiah by Alexander Pope
- Chapter 3: Apollo and Daphne, Pyramus and Thisbe, Cephalus and Procris
- Adonais By Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Edmund Waller
- The Life Of Edmund Waller
- The Lusiad
- How Apollo Came To Parnassus
- Pythian Games
- Panhellenic Games
- Childe Harold
- The Transformation of Daphne into a Lawrel
- The Art Of Preserving Health by John Armstrong
- Myths Of Babylonia And Assyria
- The Age of Semiramis
- Religious Cults Associated With the Amazons
- The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe
- The Sylph's Ball
- The Story of Cephalus and Procris
- Chapter 4: Juno and her Rivals, Io and Callisto, Diana and Actæon, Latona.
- Matronalia
- I stood tip-toe upon a little hill - John Keats
- Il Penseroso by John Milton
- Prometheus by James Russell Lowell
- Prometheus by Lord Byron
- What Prometheus Personified
- L'Allegro by John Milton
- Adonais By Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Myth of Adonis
- Diana as a Goddess of Fertility
- Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman
- The Story
of Io By James Baldwin
- Chapter 5: Phaeton
- Helios the sun god
- The Symbolism Of The Zodiac
- Primative Astronomy and Astrology
- Ancient Greek Astronomy
- Osiris and the Sun
- Celtic sun-god myths
- Myths and Myth-Makers - Light and Darkness
- Solar Myths and Christian Festivals
- The Magical Control of the Weather
- Mithras the Sun-God
- Phaeton's Sisters transform'd into Trees
- Tree-spirits
- The Worship of the Oak
- Gebir by Walter Savage Landor
- Samor Book XI
by Henry Hart Milman
- Chapter 6: Midas, Baucis and Philemon
- Wine, Women, and Song
- The Wrath of Grapes
- The Garden of the Hesperides
- The Lyre
- The Wife of Bath: Her Tale
- Gordian knot
- Proserpine and Midas, by Mary Shelley
- The Worship of Trees
- The Folklore Of Plants
- Baucis and Philemon by Jonathan Swift
- The
Story of Baucis and Philemon
- Chapter 7: Proserpine, Glaucus and Scylla
- Ceres Grove. Erisichthon and The Transformations of Erisichthon's Daughter
- The King as Jupiter
- Jupiter and His Mighty Company by James Balwin
- Kubla Khan
- The Greek View of Death and a Future Life
- The Story of Arethusa
- The Evolution Of The Dragon
- Dragons and Dragon Lore
- Paradise Lost and Regained
- The Grecian Girl's Dream Of The Blessed Islands
- Ode To Melancholy by Thomas Hood
- Endymion By John Keats
- Poems 1817, by John Keats
- The
Story of Glaucus and Scylla
- Chapter 8: Pygmalion, Dryope, Venus and Adonis, Apollo and Hyacinthus
- Sketch of the History of Greek Sculpture
- The Story of Pygmalion and the Statue
- The Ideals by Frederich Schiller
- The Worship of Trees
- The Folklore Of Plants
- Endymion by John Keats
- Atalanta's Race
- The Story Of Atalanta
- The Three Golden Apples
- The Fable of Dryope
- The Story of Venus and Adonis
- Comus. A Masque by John Milton
- Venus And Adonis by William Shakespeare
- Lycidas by John Milton
- Poems 1817, by John Keats
- Schiller's
Poems, First Period
- Chapter 9: Ceyx and Halcyone: or The Halcyon Birds
- Metaorphoses Book IX
- Birds and Beasts of the Greek Anthology
- The Transformation of Daedalion
- Weather and Folk Lore of Peterborough and District
- 10,000 Dreams Interpreted by Gustavus Hindman Miller
- On Dreams by Aristotle
- On Sleep and Sleeplessness by Aristotle
- The Secret of Dreams By Yacki Raizizun
- The Story of Ceyx and Alcyone
- Endymion
- Poems 1817, by John Keats
- The Bride of
Abydos by Lord Byron
- Chapter 10: Vertumnus And Pomona
- Ulysses The Sacker Of Cities
- Helen of Troy
- Stories Of The Trojan War
- 'Upon Cider' By John Phillips
- The Story of Vertumnus and Pomona
- Summer
From The Seasons
- Chapter 11: Cupid And Psyche
- The Folklore Of Plants
- Ode To Psyche
- The Summer Fête
- The most pleasant and delectable tale of the marriage of Cupid and Psyches
- Psyche or The Legend of Love By Mary Tighe
- Cupid and Psyche by Josephine Preston Peabody
- The Greek View of Death and a Future Life
- Poems
1817, by John Keats
- Chapter 12: Cadmus - The Myrmidons
- Cadmus And Europa
- Epidaurus
- Chapter 13: Nisus And Scylla, Echo And Narcissus, Clytie, Hero And Leander
- Poems 1817, by John Keats
- Poetical Works of Goldsmith
- The Bride of
Abydos by Lord Byron
- Chapter 14: Minerva - Niobe
- Rhymes
On The Road by Sir Thomas Moore
- Chapter 15: The Grææ and the Gorgons, Perseus and Medusa, Atlas, Andromeda
- Il Penseroso by John Milton
- Samor Book XI by Henry Hart Milman
- The Quest
Of Medusa's Head
- Chapter 16: Monsters, Giants, Sphinx, Pegasus and Chimera, Centaurs, Griffin and Pygmies
- How the Centaur Trained the Heroes on Pelion
- The
Chimera
- Chapter 17: The Golden Fleece – Medea
- Chapter 18: Meleager and Atalanta
- Rhymes On The Road by Sir Thomas Moore
- Three
Golden Apples
- Chapter 19: Hercules - Hebe And Ganymede
- Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte
- Schiller's Poems, First Period
- The Life And Labours Of Hercules
- The Story
Of Prometheus
- Chapter 20: Theseus - Daedalus - Castor And Pollux
- The
Adventures Of Theseus
- Chapter 21: Bacchus - Ariadne
- The
Adventures Of Theseus
- Chapter 22: Rural Deities. Erisichthon, Rhœcus. Water Deities. The Camenæ. The Winds
- Rhoecus By
James Russel Lowell
- Chapter 23: Achelous and Hercules, Admetus and Alcestis. Antigone, Penelope
- Antigone
- The Adventures Of Theseus
- The
Life And Labours Of Hercules
- Chapter 24: Orpheus, Eurydice. Aristæus. Amphion. Linus. Thamyris. Marsyas. Melampus
- Il Penseroso by John Milton
- Paradise
Lost Book III
- Chapter 25: Arion - Ibycus - Simonides - Sappho
- Evenings In Greece by Thomas Moore
- Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, by Bliss Carman
- The Quest
Of Medusa's Head
- Chapter 26: Diana and Endymion. Orion. Aurora and Tithonus. Acis and Galatea
- The
Faithful Shepherdess by Francis Beaumont and John
Fletcher
- Chapter 27: The Trojan War
- A Dream of Fair Women By Alfred Tennyson
- Laodamia by William Wordsworth
- The
Metamorphoses of Ovid: Book The Thirteenth
- Chapter 28: The Fall Of Troy - Return Of The Greeks - Agamemnon, Orestes and Electra
- Œnone by Alfred Lord Tennyson
- A Description Of A City Shower by Jonathan Swift
- The Bride of
Abydos by Lord Byron
- Chapter 29: Adventures Of Ulysses – The Lotus–eaters – Cyclopse
- The Lotos Eaters
- Poems 1817, by John Keats
- The
Sirens and Charybdis
- Chapter 30: The Phaeacians: Fate Of The Suiters
- Slaying The Wooers
- Telemachus, Penelope, and the Suitors
- The Bow Of Ulysses
- Ulysses among the Phaeacians
- Ulysses
by Tennyson
- Chapter 31: Adventures of Æneas. The Harpies, Dido. Palinurius
- The
Story Of Æneas
- Chapter 32: The Infernal Regions - The Sibyl
- Chapter 33: Æneas In Italy. Camilla - Evander - Nisus and Euryalus
- How Cincinnatus Saved Rome
- The
Story Of Æneas
- Chapter 34: Pythagoras Egyptian Deities Oracles
- Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte
- Song for St. Cecilia's Day, J. Dryden
- The
Talking Oak Alfred Tennyson
- Chapter 35: Origins Of Mythology Statues of Gods and Goddesses Poets of Mythology
- Chapter 36:
Modern Monsters - The Phoenix - Basilisk - Unicorn -
Salamander
- Chapter 37: Eastern Myths: Zoroaster. Hindu Mythology. Castes. Buddha. The Grand Lama
- The Religion of Zoroaster
- Of the Empire of the Persians
- Selections from the Zend-Avesta
- Ten Great Religions, by James Freeman Clarke
- Childe Harold
- Lalla Rookh by Thomas Moore
- Vedic Hymns translation by F. Max Müller The Light of Asia by Edwin Arnold
- Mandeville on Prester John
- The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany, by Arthur F. J. Remy
- Persian Literature, Comprising The Sháh Námeh and The Rubáiyát
- The Excursion, Despondency Corrected by Wordsworth
- Indian Castes and Classes
- Chapter 38: Northern Mythology - Valhalla - The Valkyrior
- MythsOfScandinavia
- The Edda: II. The Divine Mythology of the North
- The Edda: Volume II. The Heroic Mythology of the North
- The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson
- The
Fatal Sisters by Thomas Gray
- Chapter 39: Thor's Visit To Jotunheim - The Giant's Country
- MythsOfScandinavia
- Origin Of Jack The Giant-Killer
- The Edda: II. The Divine Mythology of the North
- The Edda: Volume II. The Heroic Mythology of the North
- The Elder
Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson
- Chapter 40: The Death Of Baldur - The Elves - Runic Letters - Skalds - Iceland
- Elves
- Myths Of Scandinavia
- Origin Of Jack The Giant-Killer
- Ragnarok. The Fate of the Gods
- The Descent of Odin
- The Edda: II. The Divine Mythology of the North
- The Edda: Volume II. The Heroic Mythology of the North
- The Elder
Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson
- Chapter 41: The Druids - Iona
- Early
Inhabitants Of Britain
- Chapter 42: Beowulf - Proverbial Expressions
- Family tree of the Greek gods
- Sketch of the History of Greek Sculpture
- Pronunciation Guide
