Travels in Sicily, Greece and AlbaniaJ. Mawman, 1820 - 532 pages |
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... mention is made of the Pythian Apollo --- Historical Account of the successive Pythian Temples --- Description of the last which remained entire in the Days of Pausanias . --- Contractors and Architect --- Materials of the Building ...
... mention is made of the Pythian Apollo --- Historical Account of the successive Pythian Temples --- Description of the last which remained entire in the Days of Pausanias . --- Contractors and Architect --- Materials of the Building ...
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... mention the continuance of that genuine hospitality in the Prince Butera , which so many Englishmen have experienced , in happier times , at Naples . Painful as it was to remark the extreme imbecility of the reigning family , the ...
... mention the continuance of that genuine hospitality in the Prince Butera , which so many Englishmen have experienced , in happier times , at Naples . Painful as it was to remark the extreme imbecility of the reigning family , the ...
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... mentioned is still seen the celebrated Piscina , a vast reservoir , the con- struction of which employed that portion of Carthaginian prisoners , taken in the battle of Himera , which were allotted to the Agrigentine state . According ...
... mentioned is still seen the celebrated Piscina , a vast reservoir , the con- struction of which employed that portion of Carthaginian prisoners , taken in the battle of Himera , which were allotted to the Agrigentine state . According ...
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... . Dionysius of Halicarnassus makes mention of a triple temple at Rome , dedicated to Jupiter , Juno and Minerva ( 7pēls oŋkoì wapáλλŋλo ) . The Deities who thus TEMPLES AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES . 25 hospitable of the Agrigentine.
... . Dionysius of Halicarnassus makes mention of a triple temple at Rome , dedicated to Jupiter , Juno and Minerva ( 7pēls oŋkoì wapáλλŋλo ) . The Deities who thus TEMPLES AND OTHER ANTIQUITIES . 25 hospitable of the Agrigentine.
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... mention of such an edifice at Agrigentum , except Julius Frontinus , in his third Book of Stratagems , but his text is evidently corrupted , and for Agri- gentum we ought to read Catania . It is so named by Herodotus , Aristotle and ...
... mention of such an edifice at Agrigentum , except Julius Frontinus , in his third Book of Stratagems , but his text is evidently corrupted , and for Agri- gentum we ought to read Catania . It is so named by Herodotus , Aristotle and ...
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