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Title:
Myths of Greece and Rome / by Thomas Bullfinch ; compiled by Bryan Holme ; with an introduction by Joseph Campbell.
Author:
Bulfinch, Thomas, 1796-1867.

Holme, Bryan, 1913-1990.
Publication Information:
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1981, c1979.
Call Number:
BL721 .B84 1981
Abstract:
An illlustrated edition of Bulfinch's "The Age of Fable," featuring retellings of a selection of myths from ancient Greece and Rome, complemented by mythologically inspired works of art.
ISBN:
9780140056433
Physical Description:
308 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
General Note:
An edition of The age of fable, the first book of the author's Mythology.

Includes index.
Contents:
I. Stories of gods and heroes -- II. Prometheus and Pandora -- III. Apollo and Daphne, Pyramus and Thisbe, Cephalus and Procris -- IV. Juno and her rivals, Io and Callisto, Diana and Acxtaeon, Latona and the rustics -- V. Phaeton -- VI. Midas - Baucis and Philemon VII. Proserpine, Glaucus and Scylla -- VIII. Pygmalion, Dryope, Venus and Adonis, Apollo and Hyacinthus -- IX. Ceyx and Halcyone: or, the Halcyon birds -- X. Vertumnus and Pomona, Iphis and Anaxarete -- XI. Cupid and Psyche -- XII. Cadmus, the Myrmidons -- XIII. Nisus and Scylla, Echo and Narcissus, Clytie, Hero and Leander and Arachne XIV. Minerva, Niobe -- XV. The Graeae and the Gorgons, Perseus and Medusa, Atlas, Andromeda -- XVI. Monsters: Giants, Sphinx, Pegasus and Chimera, centaurs, Griffin, pygmies -- XVII The Golden fleece, Medea -- XVIII. Meleager and Atalanta -- XIX. Hercules, Hebe and Ganymede -- XX. Theseus and Daedalus, Castor and Pollux, festivals and games -- XXI. Bacchus and Ariadne -- XXII. The Rural deities, the Dryads and Erisichthon, Rhoecus, the water deities, Carmenae, winds -- XXIII. Achelous and Hercules, Admetus and Alcestis, Antigone, Penelope -- XXIV. Orpheus and Eurydice, Aristaeus, Amphion, Linus, Thamyris, Marsysas, Melampus, Musaeus -- XXV. Arion, Ibycus, Simonides, Sappho -- XXVI. Endymion, Orion, Aurora and Tithonus, Acis and Galatea -- XXVII. The Trojan war -- XXVIII. The Fall of Troy, Return of the Greeks Orestes and Electra -- XXIX. Adventures of Ulysses, the lotus-eaters, the Cyclopes, Circe, Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, Calypso -- XXX. The Phaeacians, fate of the suitors -- XXXI. Adventures of Aeneas, the harpies, Dido, Palinurus -- XXXII. The Infernal regions, the Sibyl -- XXXIII. Aeneas in Italy, Camilla, Evander, Nisus and Euryalus, Mezentius, Turnus, a chart: the descent of the gods.
Uniform Title:
Age of fable
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