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Tooke's Pantheon of the Heathen Gods and Illustrious Heroes This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com -- - __ |- · |- |- |- |-|--. -：|-· |.…….….….….---- |-· |-|- ·|- ·· · · |-··|- |- |-· |-- |-· |- |- .|- ·|-|-|- | | . .|-|- |- ·-|- · - |×· . |（-）|-|- |- |-|- |- ſ. |- ·-|- |- |-|-|-|- · . · ·|× ·· |-|× |-|-|- · -· |-- |-|- |- |- . |- |- |- -|- |- |- · |- · |- ·-. |- |- ·|- |- |-|-|- ·|- ·· ： - · |- ··|-|- |-·|- |- ·|-· |-|- |- |- |- · |- |- |-· |- · ·|-- |-· ·|- |- | .|- |- |- |- |- ·|- · |- |-|- ----· | .|- ： · |-|- -- · _ |-├. |- ---- ·：·| |- ·|- |-·|- .- . |-· -.-|-|- |- |- |-- · ·-· ）·---- · ·-·|-----· · |-|------ - |- --------|- . | _|- - . -- |-|- . .- -- | _ THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LIBRARY - º \ , º, y " . * , an TookE's PANTHEON ... , - 2. * , , *... * * * * - , , , , r . of ºpe > * > 2 -> • * * * * * > > → * HEATHEN Gods 3 2 * AND I L II, U S T R I O U S HE R O E. S. REVISED FOR * A CLASSICAL COURSE OF EDUCATION, AND ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS OF EVERY AGE AND OF EITHER SEX. illustrateD WITH ENGRAVINGS FROM NEW AND ORIGINAL DESIGrºg. * º * - * -- B. A. L TIM OR E: PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM & JOSEPH NEAL. 1838, - DISTRICT OF MARYLAND, ss. - BE IT REMEMBERED, that on this fifth day of May, in the forty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, Edward J. Coale and Nathaniel G. Maxwell, of the said district, have deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors in the words following, to wit:— “Tooke's Pantheon of the Heathen Gods, and Illustrious He roes. Revised for a classical course of education, and adapted for the use of students of every age, and of either sex. Illus trated with engravings from new and original designs.” In conformity to an act of the Congress of the United States, entitled “An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and pro prietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to the act, entitled, “An act supplementary to the act, entitled ‘An aet for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and propri etors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints.” PHILIP MOORE, Clerk of the District of Maryland. | - 727468 .AD VERTISEMENT TO THIS REVISED EDITION OF TOOKE'S PANTHEON. —º- THE object of the Editor of this work, is to present a complete summary of Mythology, in a chaste diction, for the study of persons of every age, and of either sex. Without a general know ledge of Heathen Mythology, the immortal writ ings of Homer, Virgil, Ovid, and others, are al most unintelligible, and their principal beauties lost. * * TookE’s PANTHEoN is a work which has stood the test of time. It is more than a century since it was published, and the labours and re searches of the author are at this day so justly es teemed, that it is used as a class-book in several of our colleges. The sole exception urged by many, is, that the work is occasionally too indelicate in its phraseology, and therefore not well adapted for the youth of either sex. An attempt has been made in this edition to render it free from this objection, by altering or expunging the language or phrases considered improper, while much care has been taken that no fact nor incident, worthy of any note, related by the author, is omitted. * Andrew Tooke, born in London, 1673, was a learned man and a very respectable teacher. Though he possessed much property, he was so attached to literature and his habits of life, that he continued in his profession to the end of his days. He published several learned works, among them The Pantheon, translated from the Latin of Pomey, a Jesuit of Lyons. Pomey was much distinguished for his Pantheum Mysticum, translated by Tooke without acknowledgment. He wrote besides a French and Latin dictionary, and several works which exhibited his at learning in ancient literature. He died at Lyons, in the year 1673; thus it appears that this work was published previous to that year. 14 • * * : * > . ; *~. L. -- ~~ J 1W ADVERTISEMENT. While this book may be resorted to, occasionally by gentlemen who have finished their classical course of education, we trust it will be found very useful to both young ladies and young gentlemen prosecuting their studies in polite literature, espe cially as classical learning has of late become an object of considerable importance in female edu cation. º Thirty new and beautiful outlined plates, drawn from antique statues, have been engraved for this edition by G. FAIRMAN, Esq. an artist of the first reputation of this country, and the work is printed with good type, on paper of an excellent quality; it is therefore anticipated, that it will meet with a favourable reception, and a liberal support from the classical reader and the heads of colleges, acada mies and schools, equal to the endeavours of the publishers to render it worthy of their patronage. QUESTIONs for ExAMINATION, for the conve nience of teachers, and for the use of students, will be found at the end of each chapter. The table of contents exhibits a brief ANALysis of the work. 6 CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION.—AN ACCOUNT OF THE PANTHEON. Origin of Idolatry, . 15 Distribution of the Gods into several classes, 19 ./l more commodious division of the Gods, Celes tial, Terrestrial, JMarine, Infernal, &c. 22 PART I.-CELESTIAL GODS, Jupiter, e e s e e º e e 24 .ipollo, . 39 The Sun, or Sol, . 52 JMercury, . 58 Bacchus, . 64 JMars, . 76 CELESTIAL GODDESSES. Juno, . 83 JMinerva, . * Penus, . 99 Latona, • * * * * * * * * * 112 Aurora, * * * * e. e. e. e. e. e. 115 PART II.--TERRESTRIAL GODS. Saturn • e º e º e - e. e. e. 118 Janus, • * e e º e º tº º 127 Pulcan, • * e. e. e. e. e. e. e. 132 JEolus, - e e e º e o e 136 JMomus, • * * * * * * ~ * 138 TERRESTRIAL GODDESSES. *- Vesta, . 139 Cybele, e - - - - . 142 Ceres, . - - - . 150 The JMuses, . 159 Themis, Astraca, JNemesis . 164 GODS OF THE WOOD, AND RURAL DEITIES. Pan, . 167 Silvanus and Silenus, . 171 The Satyrs, Fauns, Priapus, Arista:us , 173 Terminus, . • * * * * * * 175 GODDESSES OF THE WOODS. Diana, . 176 Pales, Flora, Feronia, Pomona, . 182 CONTENTS. The Nymphs, . 186 The Inferior Rural Deities, . 191 PART III.-GODS OF THE SEA. .Neptune, . 194 Triton and other JMarine Gods, . 199 JIonsters of the Sea, 202 Scylla and Charybdis, ; PART IV.-INFERNAL DEITIES. Plew of Hell, Charon, Rivers of Hell, Cer berus, . 207 Pluto, Plutus, . 211 Proserpine, the Fates, the Furies, . 215 .Night, Death, Sleep, the Judges of Hell, . 220 The most famous of the Condemned in Hell, 222 JMonsters of Hell, Elysium, Lethe, . 229 PART V-OF THE DII MINORUM GENTIUM, OR THE SUBORDINATE DEITIES. The Penates, the Lares, . 236 The Genii, - - - . 240 The Nuptial Deities, . 243 Deities presiding over Infants, . 245 PART VI.-OF THE DII INDIGETES AND ADSCRIPTITII, OR THE SEMI-DEL AND HEROES. Hercules, . 249 Jason, Theseus, . 258 Castor and Pollux, . .263 Perseus, JEsculapius, . 267 Prometheus, ſltlas, . 273 Orpheus, and Amphion, Achilles, . .279 Ulysses and Orion, - - . 283 Osires, ºlpis, Serapis, . 286 APPENDIX—OF THE VIRTUES AND WICES WHICH HAVE BEEN DEIFIED. The Virtues and the Good Deities, . 292 - The Vices and the Evil Deities, . .298 Nºvo NoN. -º- MODERN DESCRIPTION OF THE PANTHEON. THIs temple, the most celebrated of those which have escaped the more essential injuries of time, im presses us with a very striking idea of the magnifi cence of the ancients. From its circular form it has acquired the name of the rotunda. The entrance to it is under a grand portico, supported by sixteen im mense columns of the Corinthian order, each of them composed of a single piece of red oriental granite. Of these, eight of them are in front, and sustain an entablature and frontispiece of the most beautiful proportion which architecture can boast. The cir cumference of each of these columns is fourteen feet; and the height, independent of the base and capital, which are of white marble, two and forty. The in side of the temple is supplied with light through one circular aperture, the diameter of which is six and twenty feet, and to which there is an ascent by a staircase consisting of an hundred and ninety steps. The gallery over the principal altar of a semicircu lar form, is obtained from the thickness of the wall, and supported by pillars of yellow marble. On ... every side are chapels adorned also with columns of yellow marble, and with pilasters crowned with an entablature of white marble, which extends round the building. The walls and the pavement are cased with marble. The whole presents us with an assem blage of rare beauty; and we cannot but regret the loss of its statues and some of its other original or naments; which would still improve the magnifi cence of its effect. The bronze ornaments of the dome were removed in the pontificate of Urban VIII. for the purpose of forming the canopy of the great altar in St. Peter's. We know that the bronze gates ornamented with bass-relief, were taken away by Genseric, king of the Vandals, and were lost in the sea of Sicily. º 10 THE a FABULOUS HISTORIES t lillº ATIHIJENT (GOJD$o CHAPTER I. º THE APPROACH TO THE PANTHEON.—THE ORIGIN OF IDOLATRY. THE Fabulous Pantheon, is, as its name imports, the Temple cf all the Gods, which the superstitious folly of men have feigned through a gross ignorance of the true and only God. It may be right to give some account of the Pan theon, of which you have a view in the plate that fa ces the title page. It is uncertain by whom this beau tiful edifice was erected: some suppose it to have been built by Agrippa, the son-in-law of Augustus; but others contend that he only enlarged and adorned it, and added to it a magnificent portico.
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