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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 215

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the conquered countrieswhere it abounded. Lion hunting was a favorite amusement ofthe kings, and the deserts of Ethiopia always afforded goodsport, abounding as they did with lions; their success on thoseoccasions was a triumph they often recorded; and Amunoph IILboasted having brought down in one… … s^fisPTif um The life of married women, maidens, children while in thecare of women, and of female slaves, passed in the gynaikonitis,from which they issued only on rare occasions. The family lifeof Greek women widely differed from our Christian idea; neitherdid it resemble the life in an Oriental…

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