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.

Erisichthon

2 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

Erisichthon

Erisichthon was a profane person and a despiser of the gods. On one occasion he presumed to violate with the axe a grove sacred to Ceres…

Erisichthon: Neptune

His property rapidly diminished under the unceasing demands of his appetite, but his hunger continued unabated. At length he had spent all…

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