Thomas Bulfinch 
The Age of Chivalry 

The Age of Chivalry Thomas Bulfinch – The Bulfinch version of myth, published for genteel Americans just as the first studies of mythography were appearing in Germany, presents the myths in their literary versions, without unnecessary violence, sex, psychology or ethnographic information.

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Thomas Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 May 27, 1867[1]) was an American writer born in Newton, Massachusetts, best known for the book Bulfinch’s Mythology.Bulfinch belonged to a well-educated merchant family of modest[citation needed] means. His father was Charles Bulfinch, the architect of the Massachusetts State House in Boston and parts of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. He attended Phillips Exeter Academy. Bulfinch supported himself through his position at the Merchants’ Bank of Boston.