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"Bulfinch's Mythology" by Thomas Bulfinch is a collection published in 1867 that retells myths and legends for general readers. Originally three separate volumes, the work presents Greek and Roman mythology, Arthurian legends, and medieval romances in accessible prose. Bulfinch removes classical languages as barriers to understanding, weaving ancient tales with quotations from contemporary poets to help nineteenth-century English readers comprehend literary allusions. His approach transforms classical education into pleasurable learning, making timeless stories meaningful for modern audiences without formal training in Latin or Greek. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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THE religions of ancient Greece and Rome are extinct. The so-called
divinities of Olympus have not a single worshipper among living men.
They belong now not to the department of theology, but to those of
literature and taste. There they still hold their place, and will
continue to hold it, for they are too closely connected with the finest
productions of poetry and art, both ancient and modern, to pass into
oblivion.

We propose to tell the stories relating to them which have come down to
us from the ancients, and which are alluded to by modern poets,
essayists, and orators. Our readers may thus at the same time be
entertained by the most charming fictions which fancy has ever created,
and put in possession of information indispensable to every one who
would read with intelligence the elegant literature of his own day.

In order to understand these stories, it will be necessary to acquaint
ourselves with the ideas of the structure of the universe which
prevailed among the Greeks—the people from whom the Romans, and other
nations through them, received their science and religion.

The Greeks believed the earth to be flat and circular, their own country
occupying the middle of it, the central point being either Mount
Olympus, the abode of the gods, or Delphi, so famous for its oracle.

The circular disk of the earth was crossed from west to east and divided
into two equal parts by the Sea, as they called the Mediterranean, and
its continuation the Euxine, the only seas with which they were
acquainted.

Around the earth flowed the River Ocean, its course being from south
to north on the western side of the earth, and in a contrary direction
on the eastern side. It flowed in a steady, equable current, unvexed by
storm or tempest. The sea, and all the rivers on earth, receiv

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