John R. Glenn 
A Critical Edition of Alexander»s Ross»s 1647 Mystagogus Poeticus, or The Muses Interpreter [EPUB ebook] 

First published in 1987, this is a critical edition of the 1647 text by the Scottish author Alexander Ross which offered the Renaissance reader not only a wealth of factual information concerning the gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters of ancient myth and legend, but also served as a treasury of interpretation and commentary ingeniously explaining the facts in terms moral, theological, historical and scientific.