THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS
THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS
A SERIES OF MYTHOLOGICAL FABLES
About the Book
The Wisdom of the Ancients, or rather, De sapientia veterum (for it was written in Latin), is a short treatise on the mythology of the ancients, by which Francis Bacon endeavors to discover and to show the physical, moral, and political meanings it concealed. If the reader is not convinced that the ancients understood by these fables all that Bacon discovers in them, he must at least admit the probability of it, and be impressed with the penetration of the author and the variety and depth of his knowledge.
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Based on the print-replica of 1884 edition publicly available at archive.org
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Table of Contents
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- OVERVIEW
- PREFACE
- NOTICE of FRANCIS BACON
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BOOK I
- CASSANDRA, OR DIVINATION
- TYPHON, OR A REBEL
- THE CYCLOPS, OR THE MINISTERS OF TERROR
- NARCISSUS, OR SELF-LOVE
- THE RIVER STYX, OR LEAGUES
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BOOK II
- PAN, OR NATURE
- PERSEUS, OR WAR
- ENDYMION, OR A FAVORITE
- THE SISTER OF THE GIANTS, OR FAME
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BOOK III
- ACTEON AND PENTHEUS, OR A CURIOUS MAN
- ORPHEUS, OR PHILOSOPHY
- CÆLUM, OR BEGINNINGS
- PROTEUS, OR MATTER
- MEMNON, OR A YOUTH TOO FORWARD
- TYTHONUS, OR SATIETY
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BOOK IV
- JUNO’S SUITOR, OR BASENESS
- CUPID, OR AN ATOM
- DIOMED, OR ZEAL
- DÆDALUS, OR MECHANICAL SKILL
- ERICTHONIUS, OR IMPOSTURE
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BOOK V
- DEUCALION, OR RESTITUTION
- NEMESIS, OR THE VICISSITUDE OF THINGS
- ACHELOUS, OR BATTLE
- DIONYSUS, OR BACCHUS
- ATALANTA AND HIPPOMENES, OR GAIN
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BOOK VI
- PROMETHEUS, OR THE STATE OF MAN
- ICARUS AND SCYLLA AND CHARITBDIS, OR THE MIDDLE WAY
- SPHINX, OR SCIENCE
- PROSERPINE, OR SPIRIT
- METIS, OR COUNSEL
- THE SIRENS, OR PLEASURES
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