Museum of Antiquity: A Description of Ancient Life: the Employments, Amusements, Customs and Habits, the Cities, Places, Monuments and Tombs, the Literature and Fine Arts of 3,000 Years Ago |
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Achilles adorned Akrisios ancient Apollo appears Aristodemus arms artists Athene Athenian atrium baths beautiful body bronze building called catacombs chambers chariot child chiton Christian color columns covered dark daughter death earth Egypt Egyptians excavations eyes face father feast feet figures flowers glass gods gold golden Greece Greek hall hand hast head heart heaven Herakles Herculaneum Hermes Herodotus hieroglyphics Homer inches inscriptions Kadmos Kephalos King land light lived look maiden marble ment mighty mosaic Nineveh obelisks Odysseus Olympos ornaments painted palace Patroclus period peristyle Perseus Phoebus Phrixos Pliny Pompeii portico present Priam probably Prokris represented rich Roman Rome round sculpture Sennacherib side silver sometimes statues stone stood street style tablinum Telephassa temple theatre Thebes thee Theseus things thou tion tombs triclinium Troy upper vases walls women wood words Zeus