It seems like I should have read this a long time ago, and perhaps I did. I don't know whether to blame him or thank him for that. because of Bulfinch, I will never want to read Milton's "Paradise Lost". I don't understand why he didn't use the Greek version of the names as well, even if he stuck them in between parenthesis. Interesting, since in his preface he boasts about how he tries to make it easier on the reader and how tedious it is having to read and look things up in the dictionary as you go along. A quarter into the book I was too lazy to cross reference which god was which, and just blindly read away just to finish it. Another thing that threw me off was his preference in using the Latin/Roman version of the names which I initially learned in Greek. He seemed to gloss over the legends, but it felt like it took me ages to finish this book. but at least I was able to absorb more about subject of Mythology than I was with Bulfinche's summary. Not that her book was anything to write home about. I thought the Age of Fable would be better than Edith Hamilton's "Mythology".
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