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Title: Lectures On The Heathen Gods Adapted To The School Room. By The Author Of "Insect Histories".
Description: London, J. Hatchard And Son, 1840 1st Ed., H/B embossed black cloth bds, Good-, a little dusty, gilt lettering to spine, top of spine has two small closed tears at hinge and one tiny one at top edge, contents clean and tight. Includes lectures on such gods as: Vesta, Titan, Prometheus, Pandora, Epimetheus, Augury, Atlas Lycaon Deucalion, Pyrrha, The oracles of Jupiter, Juno, Io, Argus, Hebe, Iris, The Rainbow, Ceres, Proserpine, Aurora, Venus, Diana, Mars, Minerva, Neptune, Deities of the air and earth, Histories of the demi-gods or heroes, the Argonauts, Orpheus, Hercules, Theseus etc...

Keywords: gods school deities Roman Greek classical teaching lectures emblems allegories parables stories war Golden Age earth air demi-gods heroes rainbow Argonauts