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.

Atalanta

3 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

Atalanta

The innocent cause of so much sorrow was a maiden whose face you might truly say was boyish for a girl, yet too girlish for a boy. Her…

Atalanta: Hippomenes

In the garden of her temple, in her own island of Cyprus, is a tree with yellow leaves and yellow branches and golden fruit. Hence she…

Atalanta: Cybele

But the lovers were so full of their own happiness that they forgot to pay due honor to Venus; and the goddess was provoked at their…

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