Waldstein, Charles, · Macmillan and Co., · leaf 115
g our main thesis, when we did not feel satisfied thatthe data at our disposal warranted assurance on the points atissue. In spite of such scepticism, always called for in soundresearch, our conviction remains unshaken in the exceptionaladvantages which Herculaneum offers for the illustration… … CHAPTER I TOPOGRAPHY The position of Herculaneum cannot be rightly appreciatedwithout some reference to the general topography of Campania.1Campania was in antiquity a very elastic term :2 Timaeus(who wrote in the first half of the third century B.C.) is theearliest writer whom we know to have used…
Herculaneum (Extinct city) · Art, Greco-Roman
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