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.

The Fall of Troy

3 pages in this part of The Outline of Mythology.

The Fall of Troy

THE story of the Iliad ends with the death of Hector, and it is from the Odyssey and later poems that we learn the fate of the other…

The Fall of Troy: Achilles

Achilles by chance had seen Polyxena, daughter of King Priam, perhaps on the occasion of the truce which was allowed the Trojans for the…

The Fall of Troy: Laocoon

While they hesitate, Laocoon, the priest of Neptune exclaims, "What madness, citizens, is this? Have you not learned enough of Grecian…

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