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 33
its extreme. The arrangement of the houses, though varied, of course, bylocal circumstances, and according to the rank and circumstancesof the master, was pretty generally the same in all. The prin-cipal rooms, differing only in size and ornament, recur every-where; those supplemental ones, which… … GROUND PLAN OV A ROMAN HOUSE. The private partcomprised the peri-style, bed - cham-bers, tricHnium,ceci, picture-galle-ry, library, baths,exedra, xystus, etc.We proceed to ex-plain the meaningof these terms.Before great mansions there was generall}^ a court or area, upon which theportico opened,…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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