FLEMENTS OF MYTHOLOGY;

UR,

CLASSICAL FABLES

OF

THE GREEKS AND ROMANS:

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

SOME NOTICES OF SYRIAN, HINDU, AND SCANDINAVIA?
SUPERSTITIONS, TOGETHER WITH THOSE

OF THE AMERICAN NATIONS:

THE WHOLE COMPARING

OLYTHEISM WITH TRUE RELIGION"

For the use of Schools.

BY THE AUTHOR OF

"AMERICAN POPULAR LESSONS."

J.J. & D.M. Hogan.

"Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

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BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twen.y-second day of October, the fifty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of Am rica, A. D. 1830, TOWAR, J. & D. M. HOGAN, of the said district, ha deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof the claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

Elements of Mythology; or Classical Fables of the Greeks and R mans: To which are added, Some Notices of Syrian, Hindu, a Scandinavian Superstitions, together with those of the Americd Nations; the whole comparing Polytheism with True Religio For the use of Schools. By the author of American Popular Le "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

song.

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PREFACE.

THIS book of Education is one of a series of simple and easy works for the use of schools. It may appear to have less of the character of utility than its predecessors; but the object of them all, humble and merely elementary as they are, is to raise the mind above mere utility, not only to employ the faculties of the young upon what is necessary to be known, but to elevate them to the love and enjoyment of the beautiful, in nature, in art, and in literatureto inspire a taste for the luxuries and refinements of intellect-to make them understand prose, and take delight in poetry-to discipline the reason, and excite the imagination.

I know that the stories of heathen gods ana goddesses are somewhat out of date-that recent poetry derives its greatest power from sentiment, from delineations of the human heart, from external nature, and from genuine history. But we must preserve our old poetry, and its connexion with the fine arts, and with the fictions and superstitions of other ages and countries. We cannot comprehend our New Testament nor multiplied allusions to classic authors, who, by their association with our