Gynaikeion: or, Nine bookes of various history. Concerninge women inscribed by ye names of ye nine Muses. Written by Thom: Heywoode.

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Gynaikeion: or, Nine bookes of various history. Concerninge women inscribed by ye names of ye nine Muses. Written by Thom: Heywoode.
Author
Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.
Publication
London :: Printed by Adam Islip,
1624.
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Women -- Early works to 1800.
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The Contents of the second Booke, inscribed Euterpe: Treating of the Muses, Sybils, Vestals, Prophetesses, Hesperides, the Graces, &c.
A Discourse concerning the Muses.
57
Of Clio.
61
Of Euterpe.
63
Of Thalia.
65
Of Melpomene.
66
Of Terpsichore.
68
Of Erato.
70
Of Polymnia, or Polyhimnia.
71
Of Vrania.
73
Of Calliope.
74
A discourse of the Sybils.
76
Sybilla Perfica, and her Prophesies.
79
Sybilla Lybica, and her Prophesies.
81
Sybilla Delphica, and her Prophesies.
82
Sybilla Cumaea, and her Prophesies.
83
Sybilla Samia, and her Prophesies.
85
Sybilla Cumana, and her Prophesies.
86
Sybilla Hellespontiaca, & her Prophesies.
88
Sybilla Phrygia, and her Prophesies.
89
Sybilla Europaea, and her Prophesies.
90
Sybilla Tiburtina, and her Prophesies.
91
Sybilla Aegyptia, and her Prophesies.
93
Sybilla Erithraea, and her Prophesies.
94
A discourse of the Virgin Vestals.
95
Of Oppia, Cladia, Fonteia, Martia, &c.
97
Of the Prophetesses.
99
The Historie of a great Magician.
101

Page [unnumbered]

Of the Hesperides.
103
The Pleiades, or Hyades: and why of the seuen Starres but six appeare at once.
105, 106
Of the Graces.
106
Of the Howres.
108
Of Aurora, or the Morning.
109
Of the Night.
112
Of Sleepe.
114
Of Death.
ibid.
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