
Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life
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- MUSEUM
- OF
- ANTIQUITY
- A DESCRIPTION OF
- ANCIENT LIFE:
- THE
- ILLUSTRATED.
- Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880 by L.W. Yaggy & T.L. Haines, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.C.
- PREFACE.
- Steel Plate Engravings.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS.
- ILLUSTRATIONS BY GERMAN ARTISTS.
- Address to the Mummy.
- Answer.
- POMPEII.ToC
- Entering Pompeii.
- Arrangement of Private Houses.
- House of Diomedes.
- Stores and Eating Houses.
- Houses of Pansa and Sallust.
- House of Holconius.
- General Survey of the City.
- FOOTNOTES:
- AMUSEMENTS.ToC
- Roman Baths.
- Social Games and Sports.
- Social Entertainments.
- Egyptian Music and Entertainments.
- Games and Sports of the Egyptians.
- FOOTNOTES:
- DOMESTIC LIFE.ToC
- Dress, Toilet and Jewelry.
- Crimes and Punishments; Contracts, Deeds, Etc.
- Houses, Villas, Farmyards, Orchards, Gardens, Etc.
- Egyptian Wealth.
- FOOTNOTES:
- DOMESTIC UTENSILS.ToC
- Furniture.
- Vases.
- EMPLOYMENT.ToC
- Baking, Dyeing and Painting.
- TROY.ToC
- As Excavated by Dr. Schliemann.
- NINEVEH AND BABYLON.ToC
- Karnac and Baalbec.
- RELIGION OR MYTHOLOGY.ToC
- THE DELPHIAN APOLLO.
- THE PYTHIAN APOLLO.
- NIOBE AND LETO.
- DAPHNE.
- KYRENE.
- HERMES.
- THE SORROW OF DEMETER.
- THE SLEEP OF ENDYMION.
- PHAETHON.
- BRIAREOS.
- DIONYSOS.
- PENTHEUS.
- ASKLEPIOS.
- IXION.
- TANTALOS.
- THE TOILS OF HERAKLES.
- ADMETOS.
- EPIMETHEUS AND PANDORA.
- IO AND PROMETHEUS.
- DEUKALION.
- POSEIDON AND ATHENE.
- MEDUSA.
- DANAE.
- PERSEUS.
- ANDROMEDA.
- AKRISIOS.
- KEPHALOS AND PROKRIS.
- SKYLLA.
- PHRIXOS AND HELLE.
- MEDEIA.
- THESEUS.
- ARIADNE.
- ARETHUSA.
- TYRO.
- NARKISSOS.
- ORPHEUS AND EURYDIKE.
- KADMOS AND EUROPA.
- BELLEROPHON.
- ALTHAIA AND THE BURNING BRAND.
- IAMOS.
- FINE ARTS.ToC
- Sculpturing.
- Mosaic.
- LITERATURE.ToC
- HOMER.
- OPENING ARGUMENT OF THE ILIAD. (By Homer.)
- MINERVA ARMING HERSELF FOR BATTLE. (By Homer.)
- PARTING OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE. (By Homer.)
- THE RACE OF MAN. (By Homer.)
- COUNCIL OF THE GODS. (By Homer.)
- NIGHT-SCENE. (By Homer.)
- HATEFULNESS OF WAR. (By Homer.)
- FALSEHOOD. (By Homer.)
- SHOWERS OF ARROWS. (By Homer.)
- PRIAM BEGGING THE BODY OF HECTOR. (By Homer.)
- HELEN'S LAMENTATION OVER HECTOR. (By Homer.)
- PARIS.
- ACHILLES.
- THE VENGEANCE OF ODYSSEUS.
- SOLON. (636 B.C.) REMEMBRANCE AFTER DEATH.
- TRUE HAPPINESS. (By Solon.)
- SOPHOCLES.
- HERODOTUS.
- THE CROCODILE. (By Herodotus.)
- ARTABANUS DISSUADES XERXES. (By Herodotus.)
- SOCRATES.
- SOCRATES AND ARISTODEMUS. (By Socrates.)
- EURIPIDES.
- ARISTOPHANES.
- PLATO.
- THE PERFECT BEAUTY. (By Plato.)
- THE LAST HOURS OF SOCRATES. (By Plato.)
- DEMOSTHENES.
- PHILIP AND THE ATHENIANS. (Oration of Demosthenes.)
- MEASURES TO RESIST PHILIP. (Oration of Demosthenes.)
- FORMER ATHENIANS DESCRIBED. (By Demosthenes.)
- ORATION ON THE CROWN. (By Demosthenes.)
- CICERO.
- INVECTIVE AGAINST CATILINE. (By Cicero.)
- EXPULSION OF CATILINE FROM ROME. (By Cicero.)
- THE TYRANT PRÆTOR DENOUNCED. (By Cicero.)
- ADVANTAGES OF AGE. (By Cicero.)
- IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. (By Cicero.)
- JULIUS CAESAR.
- THE GERMANS. (By Julius Cæsar.)
- BATTLE OF PHARSALIA. (By Julius Cæsar.)
- VIRGIL.
- PRAISE OF RURAL LIFE. (By Virgil.)
- EMPLOYMENTS OF THE BEE. (By Virgil.)
- PUNISHMENTS IN HELL. (By Virgil.)
- HORACE.
- TO LICINIUS. (By Horace.)
- TO PYRRHA. (By Horace.)
- SENECA.
- HAPPINESS FOUNDED ON WISDOM. (By Seneca.)
- AGAINST RASH JUDGMENT. (By Seneca.)
- THE EQUALITY OF MAN. (By Seneca.)
- ALL THINGS ORDERED BY GOD. (By Seneca.)
- PLUTARCH.
- THE HORRIBLE PROSCRIPTIONS OF SYLLA. (By Plutarch.)
- DEMOSTHENES AND CICERO COMPARED. (By Plutarch.)
- TOMBS AND CATACOMBS.ToC
- TOMBS.
- The Catacombs.
- EARLY INSCRIPTIONS.
- PAINTINGS.
- GLASS VASES.
- S. CALIXTUS.
- THE LAST SUPPER.
- S. PONTIANUS.
- TRUTH OF THE BIBLE.ToC
- THE END.
- FOOTNOTES:
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