"As I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar Acts xvii. 23. LONDON: Printed by A. J. Valpy, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1820. ADVERTISEMENT. After the preliminary works which have already appeared to simplify the Mythology of the Ancients, and adapt it for the female mind, this publication may perhaps be deemed superfluous; and the only apology the Author can offer is the opportunity it presented of contrasting the truths of Christianity with the errors of Pagan superstition. And at a moment when our dearest interests in Religion, and our hopes of salvation are assailed on every side, and undermined in every form, she trusts she shall be pardoned this feeble attempt to intermingle with the daily lessons of the rising generation that Great Cause, which involves their future and eternal happiness. The following outline of the Greek and Roman Mythology, which is considered as sufficient to give a general view of the subject, has been principally selected from Abbé Tressan's abridgment of the learned and voluminous labors of Abbé Banier, and which, from the historical and moral explanation it contains, is recommended as a work which may be very profitably perused by the learner, while the ensuing pages are committed to memory. London, Aug., 1820. |