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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents EDITORS' PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION An Explication of the Picture Put Forward as the Frontispiece, to Serve as the Introduction to the Work Chronological Table Book One. On the Establishment of Principles Annotations for the Chronological Table, in Which Is Made an Arrangement of Materials On the Elements On the Principles On Method Book Two. On Poetic Wisdom On Wisdom in General An Exposition and Partitioning of Poetic Wisdom On the Universal Flood and the Giants On Poetic Metaphysics, in Which Are Given the Origins of Poetry, Idolatry, Divination, and Sacrifices Corollaries concerning the principal aspects of this science On Poetic Logic Corollaries concerning poetic tropes, monstrosities, and transformations Corollaries concerning the earliest nations speaking through poetic characters Corollaries concerning the origins of languages and letters, and therein the origins of hieroglyphics, of laws, of names, of insignia of noble houses, of medallions, and of money; and, so, the origins of the earliest language and literature of the natural law of the gentile peoples Corollaries concerning the origins of poetic locution, digression, inversion, rhythm, song, and verse The additional corollaries that were proposed above Final corollaries concerning the logic of the learned On Poetic Morals, and Therein on the Origins of the Commonplace Virtues Taught by Religion Along with Marriage On Poetic Economics, and Therein on the Earliest Families Comprised of Children On the families comprised of familial servants prior to cities, without which it was completely impossible for cities to come into being Corollaries concerning contracts completed by consent alone Mythological canon On Poetic Politics, by Which the Earliest Republics in the World Came to Be in the Strictest Aristocratic Form All republics have come to be from certain eternal principles of fealties On the origins of the census and the treasury On the origins of the Roman assemblies Corollary: It is divine providence which is the institutor of the orders of republics and, at the same time, of the natural law of the gentile peoples Heroic politics, continued Corollaries concerning the ancient Roman things and, in particular, the dreamed-up monarchical regime in Rome and the dreamed-up popular liberty instituted by Junius Brutus Corollaries concerning the heroism of the earliest peoples Epitomes of poetic history On Poetic Physics On the poetic physics concerning man—that is, on heroic nature Corollary on heroic sentences Corollary on heroic descriptions Corollary on heroic customs On Poetic Cosmography On Poetic Astronomy An astronomicalphysico-philological demonstration of the uniformity of principles in all the ancient gentile nations On Poetic Chronology Chronological canon for giving the beginnings of universal history, which must have begun its course prior to the monarchy of Ninus, from which that universal history is presumed to start On Poetic Geography Corollary on Aeneas coming to Italy On the naming and describing of heroic cities Book Three. On the Discovery of the True Homer On the Recondite Wisdom That Has Been Opined about Homer On the Fatherland of Homer On the Age of Homer On the Unaccountable Faculty of Homer for Heroic Poetry Philosophical Proofs for the Discovery of the True Homer Philological Proofs for the Discovery of the True Homer Discovery of the True Homer The lack of congruity and the lack of verisimilitude belonging to the Homer believed in up until now becomes, with the Homer herein discovered, agreeableness and necessity The poems of Homer are found to be the two great treasure houses of the natural law of the gentile peoples of Greece A rational history of dramatic and lyric poetry Book Four. On the Course That the Nations Make Three Kinds of Natures Three Kinds of Customs Three Kinds of Natural Law Three Kinds of Governance Three Kinds of Languages Three Kinds of Characters Three Kinds of Jurisprudence Three Kinds of Authority Three Kinds of Reason Corollary on the wisdom of the ancient Romans in matters of state Corollary: Foundational history of Roman law Three Kinds of Judgments Corollary on duels and reprisals Three Sects of Times Additional Proofs Treating the Properties of Heroic Aristocracies On Guardianship Over Boundaries On Guardianship Over Orders On Guardianship Over Laws Additional Proofs Taken from the Moderating Which Happens of the Subsequent Constitutions of Republics Because of the Prior Ways of Governing On the eternal and natural royal law through which nations come to rest under monarchies Refutation of the principles of apolitical teaching based upon the system of Jean Bodin Final Proofs Which Confirm That This Is the Course of Nations Corollary: Ancient Roman law was a serious poem, and ancient jurisprudence was a severe poetry, within which are found the earliest roughed-out features of a legal metaphysics; and how for the Greeks philosophy came from the laws Book Five. On the Recurrence of Human Things During the Resurgence That the Nations Make The Recurrence Nations Make in Accordance with the Eternal Nature of Fealties; and, Consequently, the Recurrence of Ancient Roman Law in Feudal Law A Depiction of the World of Nations, Ancient and Modern, with Observations Conforming to the Design of the Principles of This Science Conclusion of the Work—Concerning an Eternal Natural Republic, Best in Each of the Kinds of Republic Ordered by Divine Providence