A New System of Mythology in Two Volumes Giving a Full Account of the Idolatry
A New System of Mythology in Two Volumes Giving a Full Account of the Idolatry
Robert Mayo
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Diana, Hecate, or Proserpine Triformis, vol. III. - 123 Plate 44. Hercules, vol. III. 393. An Amazon, 404. Atlas, - - 76, Plate 45. Castor and Pollux, vol. III. 450. JEsculapius, Telesphorus, and Hygeia, 455 Plate 46. Victory, vol. III. 162. Justice, Appendix, 7. Fortune. 16. Fame, 13 Plate 47. The seasons of the year, vol. III. Appendix, - . 19 Plate 48. The god of the Tiber, vol. III. 352. The goddess Roma, Ap. 19 Plate 49. Pandora endowed with the choice -gifts of the gods^ vol. HI. . 80 Pla...te 50. Niobe and her children shot to death by Apollo and Diana vol. HI. ......... 109 Plate 51. & 52, referred to in connection with Plate - . - 11, A NEW SYSTEM OF ANALYSIS. WHEN treating of the classification of the pagan deities in the introduction to the second volume, page 16, ;, 'e promised to accompany this volume with a series of Analytical Tables, illus- trative of the various systems into which the mythologists have thought proper, for the sake of method to arrange those deities; but after the maturest deliberation, we find that the minuteness of detail which we had contemplated, in exhibiting a tabular view of so many systems, of which the greater part have been adopted only by the caprice of those who projected them, would not only be foreign from the object of utility by which the plan was originally dictated, but even nugatory in effect, and conse- quently a task of supererogation, a mere brutum fulmen.
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