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Achradina Acropolis Agora Alexander Alexandria Alpes ancient Apollonia Aquae Arabicus Aradu Armenia Arsinoe Artemis Asopus Athena Augusta Babylon Borysthenes building Byrsa Byzantium called Campus Carthago CASPIUM Castra Castrum Cesarea Chersonesus Cilicia Corcyra Corinthus cubits Cyprus Cyrene Cythnos Damascus Darius Deserta DRANGIANA Edin English Miles 100 Euphrates Eurotas Forum Fretum Gades Gate Greek Greenwich Harbour height Heliopolis Heraclea Herculis hill Horti island Ismenus Ister Jahn John Bartholomew Longitude East MARE Megara Melita Memphis Meroe Mesoa Miles 50 MONS monuments Murus N.W. angle Neapolis occupied OCEANUS Olbia Palus Pausanias Persepolis Persian PERSIS Phylace Pityus plain Pons Pontus Euxinus Port Porta portico Portus Ptolemais Rhacôtis ROMA Roman Miles Sacrum Salamis Seleucia Sicilia side Sidon Sinope Sinus southern Sparta Stadia Stadium statue Stoa stood street Syene Syracuse Syria Syrtis Syrtis Minor table-land temple theatre Theba Thebe Therma THRACIA Tiberis tomb Tower Tyrus Upper City valley Vicus wall Zacynthus Zeus
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Page 132 - ... Within the COURT OF THE GENTILES stood the COURT OF THE ISRAELITES divided into two parts or courts, the outer one being appropriated to the women, and the inner one to the men. The Court of the Women was separated from that of the Gentiles by a low stone wall or partition, of elegant construction, on which stood pillars at equal distances, with inscriptions in Greek and Latin, importing that no alien should enter into the holy place. To this wall St.
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Page 134 - It combined ti« strength of a castle with the magnificence of a palace, and was like a city in extent, — comprehending within its walls not only spacious apartments, but courts and camping ground for soldiers.
Page 160 - Cross," at Antwerp, is perhaps his masterpiece. s. Salamis, Battle of, (480 B. c.) Salamis is an island lying between the western coast of Attica and the eastern coast of Megaris, and forming the southern boundary of the bay of Eleusis. It is separated from the coasts both of Attica and Megaris by only a narrow channel.
Page 114 - Sophia, or the eternal wisdom, had been twice destroyed by fire; after the exile of John Chrysostom and during the Nika of the blue and green factions. No sooner did the tumult subside than the Christian populace deplored their sacrilegious rashness; but they might have rejoiced in the calamity, had they foreseen the glory of the new temple, which at the end of forty days was strenuously undertaken by the piety of Justinian.
Page viii - Geography2* whose arrangements are just as incoherent. It is not that there is no intention to advance (and prove, or at least illustrate) any number of theses. Its editors note in their introduction with respect to Greece, "how vitally its physical features affected its history and its place among the nations. We see how its ridged headland ..." and so forth and so on. It is a theme wonderfully suited to a cartographic exposition. Eagerly we turn to the plates themselves, but . . . what is this...
Page 164 - The site of Sparta differs from that of .almost all Grecian cities. Protected by the lofty ramparts of mountains, with which nature had surrounded their fertile valley, the Spartans were not obliged, like the other Greeks, to live within the walls of a city pent up in narrow streets, but continued to dwell in the midst of their plantations and gardens, in their original village trim. It was this rural freedom and comfort which formed the chief charm and beauty of Sparta.
Page 162 - Sparta stood at the upper end of the middle vale of the Eurotas, and upon the right bank of the river. The city was built upon a range of low hills, and upon an adjoining "~ plain stretching SE to the river. These hills are offshoots of Mt. Taygetus, and rise almost immediately above the river. Ten stadia S. of the point where the...