The Outline of Mythology

Thomas Bulfinch's whole mythic world — the gods of Olympus, King Arthur's Round Table, the Mabinogeon, Beowulf and the paladins of Charlemagne — told as stories, the way 1913 read them.

Adventures of Aeneas

4 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

Adventures of Aeneas

WE have followed one of the Grecian heroes, Ulysses, in his wanderings on his return home from Troy, and now we propose to share the…

Adventures of Aeneas: Cyclopes

Adventures of Aeneas: Neptune

At this crisis, Neptune, hearing the storm raging, and knowing that he had given no orders for one, raised his head above the waves, and…

Adventures of Aeneas: Tyrian

DIDO Carthage, where the exiles had now arrived, was a spot on the coast of Africa opposite Sicily, where at that time a Tyrian colony…

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