Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life — John Shaqi
Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient LifeYaggy, L. W. (Levi W.)
History
Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life
Yaggy, L. W. (Levi W.)
Civilization, Ancient; Classical antiquities
Mythology--Mythological Characters--The Pythian Apollo--Phœbus
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 485-642
FINE ARTS.
Egyptian Sculpture--Etruscan Painting--Renowned Painters--
Parrhasius--Colors Used--Sculpture Painting--Fresco Painting--
_Sculpturing_ (_Page 667-694_)--Sculpture in Greece and Egypt--
Sculptures of Ancient Kings--Animal Sculpture--Modeling of the
Human Figure--"The Sculptor of the Gods"--Grandeur of Style--
Statues--Description of Statues--Work of Lysippus--The Macedonian
Age--Roman Art--Copies of Ancient Gods--_Mosaic_ (_Page
695-702_)--Mosaic Subjects--Battle Represented in Mosaics--
Grandeur of Style 643-702
LITERATURE.
Homer--Paris--Achilles--The Vengeance of Odysseus--Sophocles--
Herodotus--The Crocodile--Artabanus Dissuades Xerxes--Socrates--
Socrates and Aristodemus--Aristophanes--Plato--The Perfect
Beauty--Last Hours of Socrates--Demosthenes--Philip and the
Athenians--Measures to Resist Philip--Former Athenians Described--
Oration on the Crown--Invective against Catiline--Expulsion of
Catiline from Rome--The Tyrant Prætor Denounced--Immortality of
the Soul--Julius Cæsar--The Germans--Battle of Pharsalia--Virgil--
Employment of the Bee--Punishments in Hell--Horace--To Licinius--
Happiness Founded on Wisdom--The Equality of Man--Plutarch--
Proscription of Sylla--Demosthenes and Cicero Compared 703-832
TOMBS AND CATACOMBS.
Extent of the Tombs--An Acre and a quarter in a Tomb--
Sculpturings--Painting--Burying According to Rank--Mummies--
Mummy Cases and Sarcophagi--Roman Tombs--Inscriptions--_The
Catacombs_ (_Page 873-910_)--Inscriptions--Catacombs--Christian
Inscriptions--Early Inscriptions--Catacombs, nearly 900 miles
long--Utensils from the Catacombs--Paintings--S. Calixtus--Lord's
Supper 833-910
TRUTH OF THE BIBLE.
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