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ID: 175375
Title: Age of Fable
Author: Thomas Bulfinch
Narrator: Bobbie Frohman, David Thorn
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:17:00
Language: English
Release date: 01-01-07
Publisher: Alcazar AudioWorks
Genres: Kids, Mystery & Fantasy
Summary:
Thomas Bulfinch, as one reviewer put it, "Created an anthology of mythology." This audiobook contains the first 14 chapters of The Age of Fable, the first of three volumes, comprising Bulfinch's complete work. The Age of Fable recounts stories of Greek Gods, Demigods and the best known characters in mythology.
In our times, many references are made to these stories and characters in the arts, especially in the fine arts, theatre, and literature.
The stories include:
1. Introduction
2. Prometheus and Pandora
3. Apollo and Daphne, Pyramus and Thisbe, Cephalus and Procris
4. Juno and Her Rivals, Io and Callisto, Diana and Actaeon, Latona and the Rustics
5. Phaeton
6. Midas, Baucis and Philemon
7. Proserpine, Glaucus and Scylla
8. Pygmalion, Dryope, Venus and Adonis, Apollo and Hyacinthus
9. Ceyx and Halcyone (The Halcyon Birds)
10. Vertumnus and Pomona
11. Cupid and Psyche
12. Cadmus, The Myrmidons
13. Nisus and Scylla, Echo and Narcissus, Clytie, Hero and Leander
14. Minerva, Niobe
AUTHOR
Thomas Bulfinch (1796 - 1867), was both an author and a banker. Born in Newton, Massachusettes, Bulfinch was the son of an architect who help create the US Capitol building in Washington.
Best known for Bulfinch's Mythology, a posthumuous collection of his many works popularizing mythology, Bulfinch's style was known for ""Extending the enjoyment of elegant literature.""
COMMENTARY
Reviews for Alcazar AudioWorks' production of The Age of Fable
The myths of ancient Greece and Rome have been woven into Western literature over the centuries for so long that we might not even think about the origins of such common allusions as the Midas Touch or Cupid's arrows. Perhaps you've seen My Fair Lady without knowing it was based on the ancient story of Pygmalion. You may have heard a politician refer to Pandora's Box and understood his reference in a vague way, without having heard the original story.
Thomas Bulfinch, a couple of centuries ago, called mythology ""the handmaid of literature,"" further asserting that literature ""is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness."" He wasn't claiming that we needed to assume a pagan worldview in order to be virtuous and happy; indeed, his Christian worldview was firmly in place, evident in the editorial comments on the material he recounts. In his effort at promoting cultural literacy, he has produced no dry and dusty reference work, but rather has endeavored to write in a way that entertains while educating.
Alcazar Audioworks has produced an unabridged reading of the first fourteen chapters of Bulfinch's Age of Fable, the first volume of a three-part series. Now, if you know me, you know that the word ""unabridged"" thrills my literary heartstrings. Not only am I a reader, but I am such a reader that I hate to think of missing a single word that an author has taken pains to set down in print.
In about seven hours of listening time, you'll learn the origins and attributes of the Greek gods and their Roman counterparts, followed by a series of myths as told by the ancients. There are not only the stories we've seen in picture books, like that of the greedy king who wished that everything he touched would turn to gold, and the boy who wished to drive the chariot of the Sun and pestered his father until, against his better judgment, that father gave in, and disaster followed.
