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The stories are divided into three sections: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (first published in 1855); The Age of Chivalry (1858), which contains King Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon, and The Knights of English History; and The Legends of Charlemagne or The Romance of the Middle Ages (1863). For the Greek myths, Bulfinch drew on Ovid and Virgil, and for the sagas of the north, from Mallet's Northern Antiquities. provides lively versions of the myths of Zeus and Hera, Venus and Adonis, Daphne and Apollo, and their cohorts on Mount Olympus; the love story of Pygmalion and Galatea; the legends of the Trojan War and the epic wanderings of Ulysses and Aeneas; the joys of Valhalla and the furies of Thor; and the tales of Beowulf and Robin Hood.
Kindle Book
- Release date: February 11, 1999
OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9780679640011
- Release date: February 11, 1999
EPUB ebook
- ISBN: 9780679640011
- File size: 2783 KB
- Release date: February 11, 1999
Formats
Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
EPUB ebook
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Languages
English
Levels
Lexile® Measure:1200
Text Difficulty:9-12