Dialogues of the Dead Author:Fontenelle Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE C O N T E N T S. TO LUC I AN in the Elizian Fields. Page lix Dialogues of the AN T IE N T S. I. Alexander and Phrine. What Cba- racJers make the ... more »great eft Noife. Page i II. Milo and Smindirides. Of Delicacy. P- 9 I: Dido and Stratonke. Of the In- trigue which Virgil feigns of Dido. p. 15 IV. Anacreon .and Ariftotle. Of Phi-. lofophy. P- 18 Y. Homer and.JE.hv- Of the My- fteries faid toJe in Homer' Works. p.z4. . Athcr VI. Athenais and Icafia. Of the Fan- tafticalnefs of Fortunes. p. zp VII. Eroftratus and Demetrius Pha- lereus. fhat Paffiom are nece/aryy. tho' fomethnes deftruttive. p. 34 VIII. Callirhea and Paulina. That People 'will deceive themfelves as much as they have Qccafion for. p. 40 IX. Candaulus and Gyges. Of Pride and Indifcretion. P-47 X. Helen and Fulvia. On great E- vents. p. f 2. XI. Parmenifcus and Theocritus of Chios. fhat Reafon is chagrin and not always ufeful. p. fj XII. Brutus and Fauftina. On tht Sentiment of Liberty. p. 68 Dialogues of the A N TI E N T S with the MODERNS.. Uguftus and Peter Aretin. Ott Praifes. Page 75- II. Sappho and Laura. Whether it woifd be bcft that the Men court the or the Women the Men. p. 84. III. So- III. Socrates and Montaign. JVhether the Antients bad more Virtue than the Moderns. p. 8p IV. Adrian the Emperor and Margaret of Auftria. What Deaths are the mo ft extraordinary. p. 96 V. Erafiftratus aWHarvey. Of what Ufe are the Modern Difcoveries it Natural Pkihfophy and Phyfick. p. lof VI. Berenice and Cofmo II. of Me- dicis. Concerning Immortality of Name. p. in VII. Seneca and Marot. Whether the. JVifdom which proceeds from Reafon is more to be depended on than that which proceeds from Temper. p. I iS VIII. Artemifia and Raymond Lully. On the P...« less