Greek Marbles Brought from the Shores of the Euxine, Archipelago, and Mediterranean, and Deposited in the Vestibule of the Public Library of the University of Cambridge |
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Acropolis Acropolis of Athens antient Antient Greece antiquity appears ARTS LIBRARY Athens Author Bas Relief basket beautiful beloved of Phtha breast Callimachus Cariatides celebrated chaplet Cimmerian Bosporus Cippus corn Deity drapery Drusus Cæsar Edit Egypt Egyptian Eleusinian Fragment Eleusis engraved by Tomkins festival Figure Flaxman Goddess Gods philopatores Græca Grecian Greece GREEK INSCRIPTION GREEK MARBLES Heathen honour illustration inches Isis Jesus College Julius Pollux Jupiter KANHOOPOI king Ptolemy MARBLE BAS RELIEF Masks medal Medusa's Head mentioned Minerva monuments Mythology observed original ornament Osiris PARIAN MARBLE patera person Phanagoria PHIDIAS Pillar placed Plain of Troy Plutarch poppies Praxiteles Ptolemy Public quæ remarkable removal representation represented rites ROSETTA STONE Ruins sacred Scamander sculpture sepulchres shew shrine Socrates Scholasticus Spon Statue of Ceres Stèlè stones superstition symbol TABLET Temple of Ceres Tomb Translation Travels Trinity College Tumulus typified vases vessel visited Eleusis Vows Wheler δὲ ἐν καὶ τε τὸ ΦΑΡΝΑΚΙΩΝΟΣ
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Page 30 - Isis was the Venus of Cyprus, the Minerva of Athens, the Cybele of the Phrygians, the Ceres of Eleusis, the Proserpine of Sicily, the Diana of Crete, the Bellona of the Romans, &c.
Page 1 - And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin. 19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
Page 24 - A tradition prevails, that if the broken statue be removed, the fertility of the land will cease. Achmet Aga was fully possessed with this superstition, and declined permitting us to dig or measure there, until I had overcome his scruples by a present of a handsome snuff-box, containing several zechins or pieces of gold, A road led from Eleusis into the Megaris.
Page 23 - At a small distance from the north end of the ¡uclosure is a heap of marble, consisting of fragments of the Doric and Ionic orders ; remains, it is likely, of the temples of Diana Propylea and of Neptune, and of the Propyleum or gateway. Wheler saw some large stone« carved with wheat-ears and bundles of poppy.
Page 37 - ... the labourers. At mid-day, the statue had reached the summit of the hill above Eleusis ; and as the sun was setting-, by the additional assistance of the crew of a Casiot vessel, hired to convey it away, was placed at the extremity of the ancient quay of the port. The next day, November 23, boats were placed parallel to each other from the quay to the vessel, and planks being laid over them, a kind of stage was formed, on which the crew could more easily work the blocks to the ship.
Page 48 - Between th* extended earth and starry sky. But when to Ida's topmost height he came, (Fair nurse of fountains, and of savage game,) Where, o'er her pointed summits proudly raised.
Page 2 - And when the' ascending soul has wing'd her flight, .Let Sleep and Death convey, by thy command, The breathless body to his native land. His friends and people, to his future praise, A marble tomb and pyramid shall raise, And lasting honours to his ashes give; His fame ('tis all the dead can have) shall live.
Page 60 - ... contributed to the Gods. He has also distributed justice to all, as Hermes the Great and Great. He has ordained also that those who went out from among the soldiers, and from others, whose minds were set upon the property of their neighbours in times of tumult, and returned, should remain on their own settlements ; and has also provided that forces, of cavalry and infantry, and ships, should...
Page 14 - Ceres ; and Ictinus, the architect of the Parthenon at Athens, composed the plan of the edifice. Every thing that the arts of Greece could afford in the period of their greatest splendour, aided by the genius, the taste, and the profusion of their great patron, was lavished upon this building. The effect of its beauty and prodigious magnitude is described as exciting a degree of astonishment, which could only be equalled by the awe its sanctity created.
Page 61 - And coming to the city of Lycopolis, in the Busiritic [nome], which was circumvallated and fortified against a siege with a plentiful supply of arms, and all other appointments, as might be expected by the long...