Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1882)
Yaggy, Levi W · Chicago, Western Publishing House; New York, Standard Publishing House; [etc.,etc.] · leaf 130
, 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 AMPHITHEATllE AT POMPEII. The Greek w^ord, 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, vv^hich, as we have said, was semicircular, butwith the…
Haines, Thomas L · Civilization · Classical antiquities
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