PANTHEON:

O R,

FABULOUS HISTORY

OF THE

HEATHEN GODS,
HEROES, GODDESSES, &c.

Explain'd in a Manner intirely New,
And render'd much more useful than any hitherto publish❜d
on this Subject.

ADORN'D WITH

Figures depicted from ancient Paintings, Medals and Gems,
for the Ufe of those who would understand HISTORY, POETRY,
PAINTING, STATUARY, COINS, MEDALS, &c.

To which is added,

A Difcourfe on the Theology of the Ancients, wherein the
Manner of their Worship, and the Rife and Progress of Ido-
dolatry are considered.

AS ALSO

An Explanation of their ancient Mythology from the Writ-
ings of Mofes; the Egyptian, Grecian, Roman, and Eastern
Hiftorians, Philofophers, Poets, &c.

By SAMUEL BOYSE, A. M.

With an APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

Some Account of their various fuperftitious Obfervances by
Aftrology, Prodigies, Auguries, Arufpices, Oracles, &c. in
which the Origin of each are pointed out. As alfo a fhort histo
rical Account of the Rife of Altars, facred Groves, Priests
and Temples.

By a Gentleman of CAMBRIDGE.

LONDON:

Printed for J. NEWBERY, at the Bible and Sun oppofite the North
Door in St. Paul's Church-Yard; aud B. COLLINS, Bookseller,
on the New Canal in Salisbury. M. DCC.LIII.

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PREFACE.

W

E have here no Design to raise the Reputation of this Work, by depreciating the many others that have already been publifh'd on this Subject; it is ufficient for us to fay, that we have followed a Plan entirely new, and at the fame Time fuch a one as has appeared to us much more useful, more ational, and lefs dry than any that has gone beFore it.

As all Works of this Kind must neceffarily conift of Materials collected from other Authors, no Expence, no Labour has been fpared, the most celebrated Works on this Subject have been conulted and compared with each other, and it has requently happen'd, that fcattered Hints widely Hifperfed have ferved to clear up the most difficult ind intricate Meanings, to a Degree of Demontration; but amongst all the Authors to which we have had Recourse, we must here particularly acknowledge

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