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The description of Greece, by Pausanias. Translated from the Greek. With notes, In which much of the Mythology of the Greeks is unfolded from a Theory which has been for many Ages unknown. And illustrated with maps and views elegantly engraved. In Three Volumes. ...
Pausanias.Date: MDCCXCIV. [1794]- Books
The Mythology of all races ... / Louis Herbert Gray ... editor George Foot Moore ... consulting editor.
Date: 1916-1932- Books
The first fossil hunters : paleontology in Greek and Roman times / Adrienne Mayor.
Mayor, Adrienne, 1946-Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
Greek mythology : an introduction / Fritz Graf ; translated by Thomas Marier.
Graf, Fritz.Date: 1996, ©1993- Books
Death and the maiden : girls' initiation rites in Greek mythology / Ken Dowden.
Dowden, Ken, 1950-Date: 1989- Books
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology / Edited by William Smith.
Date: 1844-1849- Books
A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology / by various writers ; edited by William Smith.
Date: 1880- Books
A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology / by various writers ; edited by William Smith ; illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.
Date: 1873- Books
The gardens of Adonis : spices in Greek mythology / Marcel Detienne ; translated from the French by Janet Lloyd ; with an introduction by J.P. Vernant.
Detienne, Marcel.Date: 1977- Books
The mythology of plants : botanical lore from ancient Greece and Rome / Annette Giesecke.
Giesecke, AnnetteDate: [2014]- Books
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A complete commentary, with etymological, explanatory, critical and classical notes on Milton's Paradise Lost: Explaining 1. All the Hebrew, Chaldaic, Arabic, Syriac, Phoenician, Egyptian, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Russian, Tatarian, Saxon, Teutonic (or German) Dutch, Norman, (or Old French) Old English (or Scottish) Indian, American and Miltonian Words, i. e. Those of the Author's own Coining, thro' the whole Poem. 2. All the difficult Terms of Divinity, Philosophy, Mathematics, Astronomy, Astrology, History, Geography, Architecture, Navigation, Anatomy, Surgery, Chymistry, Alchemy, Hunting, Hawking, Gardening, and other Human Arts and Sciences. 3. All the fine Epithets, the Mythology (or Fables) of the Antients) all the Figures of Grammar and Rhetoric, Comparisons, Similies, Digressions, different Persons; and setting all the Transposed Sentences in a plain English Prose Order; with many new Theological, Critical, Historical and Political Observations, never published before. For without such a Work the Poem is useless to most Readers of it. By James Paterson, M. A. And Philologist.
Paterson, James, M.A., philologist.Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]- Books
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A classical dictionary of Greek and Roman biography, mythology and geography / based on the larger dictionaries by Sir William Smith ; revised throughout and in part rewritten by G.E. Marindin.
Date: 1899- Books
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The new universal etymological English dictionary: Containing An Additional Collection of Words, with their Explications and Etymologies from the Ancient British, Tcutonick, Dutch, Saxon, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, &c. each in its proper Character. Also An Explication of Hard and Technical Words, or Terms, in all Arts and Sciences; with Accents directing to their proper Pronunciation, shewing both the Orthography and Orthoepia of the English Tongue. Illustrated With some Hundred Cuts, giving a clearer Idea of those Figures, not so well apprehended by verbal Description. Likewise A Collection and Explanation of Words and Phrases used in our ancient Charters, Statues, Writs, Old Records and Processes at Law. Also The Theogony, Theology, and Mythology of the Egyptians, Greeks Romans, &c. being an Account of their Deities, Solemnities Divinations, Auguries, Oracles, and Hieroglyphicks. A Work useful for such as would Understand what they Read and Hear, Speak what they Mean, and Write true English. To which is added. A dictionary of cant words. By N. Bailey.
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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The new universal etymological English dictionary: Containing An Additional Collection of Words, with their Explications and Etymologies from the Ancient British, Teutonick, Dutch, Saxon, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, &c. each in its proper Character. Also An Explication of Hard and Technical Words, or Terms, in all Arts and Sciences; with Accents directing to their proper Pronunciation, shewing both the Orthography and Orthoepia of the English Tongue. Illustrated With some Hundred Cuts, giving a clearer Idea of those Figures, not so well apprehended by verbal Description. Likewise A Collection and Explanation of Words and Phrases used in our antient Charters, Statutes, Writs, Old Records and Processes at Law. Also The Theogony, Theology, and Mythology of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, &c. being an Account of their Deities, Solemnities, Divinations, Auguries, Oracles, and Hieroglyphicks. A Work useful for such as would Understand what they Read and Hear, Speak what they Mean, and Write true English. To which is added, a dictionary of cant words. By N. Bailey.
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The universal etymological English dictionary: containing an additional collection of words (not in the first volume) with their Explications and Etymologies from the Ancient British, Teutonick, Dutch, Saxon, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Cbuldee, &c. each in its proper Character. Also An Explication of hard and technical Words, or Terms, in all Arts and Sciences: with Accents directing to their proper Pronunciation, shewing both the Orthography and Orthoepia of the English Tongue. Illustrated with above Five Hundred Cuts, giving a clearer Idea of those Figures, not so well apprehended by verbal Description. Likewise A Collection and Explanation of Words and Phrases us'd in our ancient Charters, Statutes, Writs, Old Records and Processes at Law. Also The Theogony, Theology, and Mythology of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, &c. being an Account of their Deities, Solemnities, Divinations, Auguries, Oracles, Hieroglyphicks, and many other curious Matters, necessary to be understood, especially by the Readers of English Poetry. To which is added, An additional Collection of proper Names of Persons and Places in Great Britain, &c. with their Etymologies and Explications. The Whole digested into an Alphabetical Order, not only for the Information of the Ignorant, but the Entertainment of the Curious; and also the Benefit of Artificers, Tradesmen, Young Students and Foreigners. A Work useful for such as would Understand what they Read and Hear, Speak what they Mean, and Write true English. Vol. II. The third edition with many additions, by N. Bailey, [Greek].
Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.Date: MDCCXXXVII. [1737]- Books
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The description of Greece / by Pausanias. Translated from the Greek. With notes. In which much of the mythology of the Greeks is unfolded from a theory which has been for many ages unknown. And illustrated with maps and views elegantly engraved.
Pausanias, active approximately 150-175.Date: 1794- Books
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The religion of the ancient Greeks illustrated, by an explanation of their mythology. Translated from the French of M. Le Clerc de Septchenes, Secretaire Du Cabinet Du Roi.
Leclerc de Sept-Chênes, -1788.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Lingua Britannica reformata: or, a new universal English dictionary, under the following titles, viz. I. Universal; Containing a Definition and Explication of all the Words now used in the English Tongue, in every Art, Science, Faculty, or Trade. II. Etymological; Exhibiting and Explaining the true Etymon or Original of Words from their respective Mother-Tongues, the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Saxon; and their Idioms, the French, Italian, Spanish, German, Dutch, &c. III. Orthographical; Teaching the True and Rational Method of Writing Words, according to the Usage of the most approved Modern Authors. IV. Orthoepical; Directing the true Pronunciation of Words by single and double Accents; and by Indicating the Number of Syllables in Words where they are doubtful, by a Numerical Figure. V. Diacritical; Enumerating the various Significations of Words in a proper Order, viz. Etymological, Common, Figurative, Poetical, Humorous, Technical, &c. in a Manner not before attempted. VI. Philological; Explaining all the Words and Terms, according to the Modern Improvements in the various Philological Sciences, viz Grammar, Rhetoric, Legic, Metaphysics, Mythology, Theology, Ethics, &c. Vii. Mathematical; Not only explaining all the Words in Arithmetic, Algebra, Logarithms, Fluxions, Geometry, Couics, Dialling, Navigation, &c. according to the Modern Newtonian Mathesis; but the Terms of Art are illustrated by proper Examples, and Copper-Plate Figures. Viii. Philosophical; Explaining all Words and Terms in Astronomy, Geography, Optics, Hydrostatics, Acoustics, Mechanics, Perspective. &c. according to the latest Discoveries and Improvements in this Part of Literature. By Benj. Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: MDCCLIV. [1754]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001576: Photograph of a small stone statue of Aesculapius holding the Rod of Asclepius
Date: 07 January 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/14/75Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Books
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Dictionarium Britannicum: or a more compleat universal etymological English dictionary than any extant. Containing Not only the Words, and their Explication; but their Etymologies from the Antient British, Teutonick, ... Dutch, Saxon, Danish, ... French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldee, &c. each in its proper Character. Also Explaining hard and technical Words, or Terms of Art, in all the Arts, Sciences, and Mysteries following. Together with Accents directing to their proper Pronuntiation, shewing both the Orthography and Orthoepia of the English Tongue, Viz. in Agriculture, ... and Trigonometry. Illustrated with near Five Hundred Cuts, for Giving a clearer Idea of those Figures, not so well apprehended by verbal Description. Likewise A Collection and Explanation of Words and Phrases us'd in our antient Charters, Statutes, Writs, Old Records and Processes at Law. Also The Theogony, Theology, and Mythology of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, &c. being an Account of their Deities, Solemnities, either Religious or Civil, their Divinations, Auguries, Oracles, Hieroglyphicks, and many other curious Matters, necessary to be understood, especially by the Readers of English Poetry. To which is added, A Collection of Proper Names of Persons and Places in Great-Britain, with their Etymologies and Explications. The Whole digested into an Alphabetical Order, not only for the Information of the Ignorant, but the Entertainment of the Curious; and also the Benefit of Artificers, Tradesmen, Young Students and Foreigners. A Work useful for such as would Understand what they Read and Hear, Speak what they Mean, and Write true English. Collected by several hands, the mathematical part by G. Gordon, the botanical by P. Miller. The whole revis'd and improv'd, with many thousand additions, by N. Bailey,
Bailey, N (Nathan), -1742.Date: M,DCC,XXX. [1730]- Archives and manuscripts
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M0001575: Photograph of Aesculapius, or Coluber longissimus, snake coiled around a wooden staff
Date: 07 January 1931Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/14/74Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0004614: Statue of Antinous, Greek hero
Date: 5 May 1936Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/37/21Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0004971: Hypnos and Thanatos carrying the corpse of Mennon: decoration on a Greek vase
Date: 2 November 1936Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/40/60Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0004922: Decoration on a Greek cup by Sosias: Achilles binding the arm of Patrocle
Date: October 1936Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/40/14Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
M0004899: Greek seer Calchas examining a liver, decoration on an Etruscan mirror
Date: October 1936Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/39/91Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive