The Age of Fable

<p>2024 Reprint of the 1855 Edition. <em>Drawing on the works of Homer Ovid Virgil and other classical authors as well as an immense trove of stories about the Norse gods and heroes The Age of Fable </em>offers lively presentation of the myths of the Greek and Roman gods: Venus and Adonis Jupiter and Juno Daphne and Apollo the Druids Norse legends eastern mythology Pythagoras and many others. The myths and legends so vividly retold in this volume underlie much of the art literature and culture of Western civilization. As Bulfinch put it Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.</p>