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MUSEUM
OF
ANTIQUITY
A DESCRIPTION OF
ANCIENT LIFE:
THE
BY
L.W. YAGGY, M.S., AND T.L. HAINES, A.M.,
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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