sentences:  The versions Bulfinch gives for the classical myths are those in Ovid and Virgil.His Norse myths are abridged from a work by Paul Henri Mallet (1730–1807), a professor at Geneva, translated by Bishop Thomas Percy as "Northern Antiquities" (London, 1770, often reprinted).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.