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 (1883)
Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 130
i^t^^/^aat^fifUfJiJ^ … VIEW OF THE AMPHITHEATRE AT POMPEII. The Greek word, which by a slight 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 seats…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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