The book is a prose recounting of myths and stories from three eras: Greek and Roman mythology, King Arthur legends and medieval romances. Martin's 1991 edition is "by far the most useful and extensive critical treatment". Talbot opined that, of the many available, Richard P. By 1987, there were more than 100 editions of Bulfinch's Mythology in the National Union Catalog, and in a survey of in November 2014 there were 229 print editions and 19 e‑books. Richard comments (with John Talbot of Brigham Young University concurring) 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.
The work was a successful popularization of Greek mythology for English-speaking readers.Ĭarl J. Bulfinch's Mythology is a collection of tales from myth and legend rewritten for a general readership by the American Latinist and banker Thomas Bulfinch, published after his death in 1867.
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