 Isis was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the Cybele of the Phrygians, the Ceres of Eleusis, the Proserpine of Sicily, the Diana of Crete, the Bellona of the Romans, &c.  The Oriental Herald - Page 3341828Full view - About this book
 | John Lemprière - Literary Criticism - 1792 - 822 pages
...ancient deities, as fome authors obferve, comprehended all nature and all the gods of the heathens. ICs was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the Cybele of the Phrygians, the Ceres of Eleufis, the Proferpine of Sicily, the Diana of Crete, the Bellona of the Romans, &c. Ofiris and Ifis... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke, Cambridge University Library - 1809 - 81 pages
...yX«<r<7«i Hist, des Inscriptions, torn. XVI. p. 20. XVII. pp. 86, 87. (h) Tom. I. PI. 45. fig. 6. 29 of Isis found in Egypt. It seems an established truth,...Pagan Mythology, the confusion, which at first view seerrted to bewilder the inquirer, gradually disappears. The most antient expositors of Heathen Fables... | |
 | John Lemprière - History - 1809 - 861 pages
...deities, .is ibme authors obferve, comprehended all nature and, all the gods of the heathens. Ilis n as the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the Cybele of the Phrygians, the Ceres of Eleufis, the Proferpine of Sicily, the Diana of Crete, the Bellona of the Romans, fcc. Ofiris -and... | |
 | John Lempriere - 1812
...antient deities, as fome authors obferve, comprehended all nature, and all the gods of the heathens. Ifis was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the Cybele of the Phrygians, the Ceres of Eleufis, the Proftrpine of Sicily, the Diana of Crete, the Bellon» of the Romans, itc. Ofiris and... | |
 | John Lemprière, John Walker - History - 1812 - 504 pages
...received divine honours after death. Isis was the Venui of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the Cyhele of the Phrygians, the Ceres of Eleusis, the Proserpine of Sicily, the Diana of Crete, the Bellona of the Romans, Ike. Osiris and Isis reigned conjointly in Egyptj but the rebellion of Typhon,... | |
![Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge. [With] Supp](http://bks1.books.google.co.uk/books?id=zXkltiv3W3UC&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "Encyclopaedia Perthensis; or, Universal dictionary of Knowledge. [With] Supp") | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816
...two ancient deities, as fome obferve, comprehended all nature and all the gods of the heathens. Ifis was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the Cybele of the Phrygians, the Ceres of Eleufis, the Prolerpine of Sicily, the Diana of Crete, the Bellona of the Romans, &c. Ofiris and Ifis... | |
 | John Lemprière - History - 1822 - 850 pages
...ancient deities, a* some authors observe, comprehended all nature and all the gods of the heathens. Isis was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens,...the Ceres of Eleusis, the Proserpine of Sicily, the Dinna of Crete, the Bcllona of the Romans, &c. Osiris and l->s reigned conjointly in Egypt, but the... | |
 | John Lemprière - History - 1822 - 850 pages
...ancient deities, as some authors observe, comprehended all nature and all the gods of the heathens. Isis was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the Cybele of the Phrygians, the Ceres of Elensis, the Proserpine of Sicily, the Diana of Crete, the Bclloua of the Romans, &c. Osiris and Isis... | |
 | 1823
...ancient deities, as some authors observe, comprehended all nature and all the gode of the heathens. Isis was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the Cybele of the Phrygian«, the Ceres of Eleusis, the Proserpine of Sicily, the Diana of Crete, the Huilona of the... | |
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