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.

Aristaeus, the Bee-Keeper

2 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

Aristaeus, the Bee-Keeper

Man avails himself of the instincts of the inferior animals for his own advantage. Hence sprang the art of keeping bees. Honey must first…

Aristaeus, the Bee-Keeper: Proteus

The nymph led her son to the prophet's cave and concealed him among the recesses of the rocks, while she herself took her place behind the…

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