The poetical histories being a compleat collection of all the stories necessary for a perfect understanding of the Greek and Latine poets and other ancient authors / written originally in French, by the learned Jesuite, P. Galtruchius ; now Englisht and enricht with observations concerning the gods worshipped by our ancestors in this island, by the Phœnicians, and Syrians in Asia ... ; unto which are added two treatises, one of the curiosities of old Rome, and of the difficult names relating to the affairs of that city, the other containing the most remarkable hieroglyphicks of Ægypt, by Marius d'Assigny ...

Title

The poetical histories being a compleat collection of all the stories necessary for a perfect understanding of the Greek and Latine poets and other ancient authors / written originally in French, by the learned Jesuite, P. Galtruchius ; now Englisht and enricht with observations concerning the gods worshipped by our ancestors in this island, by the Phœnicians, and Syrians in Asia ... ; unto which are added two treatises, one of the curiosities of old Rome, and of the difficult names relating to the affairs of that city, the other containing the most remarkable hieroglyphicks of Ægypt, by Marius d'Assigny ...

Author

Gautruche, Pierre, 1602-1681.

Publication

London :: Printed by B.G. and are to be sold by Moses Pitt ...,

1671.

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Mythology, Classical.

Rome -- Antiquities.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE Right Honourable Sir ORLANDO BRIDGMAN, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, and one of his Maje∣sties most Honourable Privy Council, &c.
• THE CONTENTS
  • The First Book.
  • The Second Book.
  • The Third Book.
  • Of the Roman Curiosities.
  • Of the Egyptian Hieroglyphicks.
• THE PREFACE TO THE Judicious READER.
• These Books are to be sold by Moses Pitt at the White Hart in Little Britain.
  • Folio.
  • Quarto.
  • Octavo.
• The most pleasant History of the POETS, necessary for the understanding of the Heathen Writers.
  • BOOK I.
    • CHAP. I.
    • CHAP. II.
    • CHAP. III.
    • CHAP. IV.
    • CHAP. V.
    • CHAP. VI.
    • CHAP. VII.
    • CHAP. VIII.
    • CHAP. IX.
    • CHAP. X.
    • CHAP. XI.
    • CHAP. XII.
    • CHAP. XIII.
    • CHAP. XIV,
    • CHAP. XV.
    • CHAP. XVI.
• title page
• The Preface.
• THE HISTORY OF THE Ancient Demi-Gods:
  • Book II.
    • CHAP. I.
    • CHAP. II.
    • CHAP. III.
    • CHAP. IV.
    • CHAP. V.
    • CHAP. VI.
    • CHAP. VII.
    • CHAP. VIII.
    • CHAP. IX.
    • CHAP. X.
    • CHAP. XI.
    • CHAP. XII.
    • CHAP. XIII.
    • CHAP. XIV.
    • CHAP. XV.
    • CHAP. XVI.
    • CHAP. XVII.
    • CHAP. XVIII.
    • CHAP. XIX.
    • CHAP. XX.
    • CHAP. XXI.
    • CHAP. XXII.
    • CHAP. XXIII.
    • CHAP. XXIV.
• The Third Book.
  • The PREFACF.
  • Of the Honours rendred by the Heathens to their Gods.
  • CHAP. II.
  • CHAP. III.
  • CHAP. IV.
  • CHAP. V.
  • CHAP. VI.
  • CHAP. VII.
• A Treatise of the Roman Anti∣quities, and of the difficult Names relating to their Affairs not mentioned by Gautruche.
  • CHAP. I.
  • CHAP. II.
  • CHAP. III.
  • CHAP. IV.
  • CHAP. V.
  • CHAP. VI.
  • CHAP. VII.
  • CHAP. VIII.
  • CHAP. IX.
  • CHAP. X.
  • CHAP. XI.
• A Short COLLECTION Of the FAMOUS MYSTERIES Of the EGYPTIANS, Named HIEROGLYPHICKS.
  • The Preface.
  • CHAP. I.
  • CHAP. II.
  • CHAP. III.
  • CHAP. IV.
• Errata.
  • Book. I.
  • Book. II.
  • Book III.
• Advertisement.
• AN INDEX OF THE NAMES and PLACES.