Museum of Antiquity

About this eBook

Author

L. W. Yaggy

Title

Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life

Credits

Produced by Jeannie Howse, Juliet Sutherland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Language

English

Subject

Civilization, Ancient

Category

Text

eBook-No.

27988

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27988

Release Date

February 4, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.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.
2. 2.Address to the Mummy.
3. 3.Answer.
4. 4.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:
5. 5.AMUSEMENTS. ToC — Roman Baths. — Social Games and Sports. — Social Entertainments. — Egyptian Music and Entertainments. — Games and Sports of the Egyptians. — FOOTNOTES:
6. 6.DOMESTIC LIFE. ToC — Dress, Toilet and Jewelry. — Crimes and Punishments; Contracts, Deeds, Etc. — Houses, Villas, Farmyards, Orchards, Gardens, Etc. — Egyptian Wealth. — FOOTNOTES:
7. 7.DOMESTIC UTENSILS. ToC — Furniture. — Vases.
8. 8.EMPLOYMENT. ToC — Baking, Dyeing and Painting.
9. 9.TROY. ToC — As Excavated by Dr. Schliemann.
10. 10.NINEVEH AND BABYLON. ToC
11. 11.Karnac and Baalbec.
12. 12.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.
13. 13.FINE ARTS. ToC
14. 14.Sculpturing.
15. 15.Mosaic.
16. 16.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.)
17. 17.TOMBS AND CATACOMBS. ToC — TOMBS. — The Catacombs. — EARLY INSCRIPTIONS. — PAINTINGS. — GLASS VASES. — S. CALIXTUS. — THE LAST SUPPER. — S. PONTIANUS.
18. 18.TRUTH OF THE BIBLE. ToC — THE END. — FOOTNOTES:

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