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A review by noelishi
Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
I won’t rate it because I didn’t finish reading it. It is an interesting book to have, but its accuracy is not enough for what I expected.
Before buying it I thought this would be a complete book that would give me an idea of Greek mythology. I found knights too, for example. That was pleasantly unexpected. I also found that Bulfinch changed and wrote basically what he wanted without minding accuracy. His objective was getting people in the Victorian period closer to mythology. It worked in the past, but now we have so many good books about it that this has become a mere anecdotic book and an interesting little gem in my shelf.
Before buying it I thought this would be a complete book that would give me an idea of Greek mythology. I found knights too, for example. That was pleasantly unexpected. I also found that Bulfinch changed and wrote basically what he wanted without minding accuracy. His objective was getting people in the Victorian period closer to mythology. It worked in the past, but now we have so many good books about it that this has become a mere anecdotic book and an interesting little gem in my shelf.