Thomas Bulfinch

Thomas Bulfinch was born in 1796 in Newton, Massachusetts, into a well-educated merchant family of modest means. His father was Charles Bulfinch, the architect of the Massachusetts State House in Boston and of parts of the U.S. Capitol. Thomas attended Boston Latin School, Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard College, from which he graduated in 1814. His main career was with the Merchants' Bank of Boston. In 1855 he published The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, retelling Greek and Roman myths. He followed it with The Age of Chivalry (1858), about King Arthur and his knights, and Legends of Charlemagne (1863). In his preface he explained that he wrote not for scholars but for ordinary readers who wanted to understand the references to mythology that they met in poems, speeches and conversation, and that he hoped to teach mythology 'not as a study, but as a relaxation from study'. Bulfinch died in 1867. In 1881 the three books were combined as Bulfinch's Mythology, which has remained in print ever since.

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