Museum of antiquity : a description of ancient life : the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, T. L · New York : Standard Pub. House · leaf 136
, still attest the luxuryand solidity of their construction; while at Rome the Coliseum(see frontispiece) asserts the pre-eminent splendor of the metrop-olis—a monument surpassed in magnitude by the Pyramids alone,and as superior to them in skill and varied contrivance of designas to other… … VIEW OF THE A.MPI1IT1IEATKE AT POMPEII. The Greek word, which bv a slis^ht alteration of its termi-nation we render amphitheatre, signifies a theatre, or place ofspectacles, forming a continuous inclosure, in opposition to thesimple theatre, which, as we have said, was semicircular, butwith the…
Civilization, Ancient · Classical antiquities
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