Ancient Geography, as Connected with Chronology, and Preparatory to the Study of Ancient History: Accompanied with an AtlasOliver D. Cooke & Company, 1827 - 96 Seiten |
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3d Epocha 6th Epocha Ægæan Sea Africa Alexandria Ancient Geography ancient maps ancient names Antioch Argolis Asia Minor Assyria Athens Babylon brass meridian bring the sun's Cæsar called Capernaum Caria Caspian Sea centre Chronology circles Cisalpine Gaul Colchis Corinth Crete description of cities distance divided draw earth east eastern ecliptic Egypt Ephesus Epirus equator equinoctial Euphrates Euxine extended feet Galatia Galilee Gaul Græcia Greece Greeks Gulf Illyricum Imaus inhabitants island Italy Jerusalem Jupiter king Lake land length Macedonia Mauritania meridian miles modern Mount mountains night Noricum northern Numidia Olympus parallels of latitude Peloponnesus Persian Phrygia points pole principal cities PROBLEM Projection Propria pupil quadrant of altitude river Roman Empire Rome ruins Sarmatia Scythia set the index situated Sogdiana southern star sun rises sun's place supposed Syria temple Thebes thence Thermodon Thessaly Thrace tribes Troas Tropic Tyre walls western wooden horizon
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Seite 65 - MYTflOLOGY. g^ through them; 7th, he brought alive to Mycenae a wild bull which had ravaged Crete; 8th, he slew Diomedes, king of Thrace, and his four mares, which he fed on human flesh; 9th, he slew Geryon, the three-bodied king of Gades, and carried away his cattle; 10th, he conquered the Amazons at the river Thermodon...
Seite 59 - Peloponnessian war. 401. Retreat of the ten thousand Greeks under Xenophon from Babylon to the Euxine. I 391. Veii taken by Camillus at the head of the Romans, m 382. War between the Thebans and Spartans begins The principal battles are at Leuctra and Mantinea, in which the Thebans under Epaminondas are victorious over the Lacedemonians, n At Mantinea, Epaminondas is mortally wounded.
Seite 34 - Euphrates flowed through it, and over this river was a bridge more than half a mile in length. At the end of the bridge were two palaces that communicated with each other by a vault built under the channel of the river. Before the bridge and vault could be built, a lake 37 miles square and 35 feet deep, was dug to receive its waters. After this was completed, the river was again permitted to flow in its ancient channel.
Seite 83 - The two temperate zones are all those parts lying hetween the tropics and the polar circles ; consequently, there is one of these in the northern and one in the southern hemisphere. We, in the United States, are inhabitants of the north temperate zone. The two frigid zones lie between the polar circles and the poles, and have their name from the excessive cold in those parts.
Seite 40 - Caracalla furnish, poblé specimens of the grandeur and extent of such edifices in ancient Rome. They contained not only baths and an immense basin for swimming, but around them, libraries, rooms for refreshments and halls for exercise, places of amusement and even temples. The baths of Dioclesian cover a great extent of ground, and a single hall now forms a church of considerable size. The baths of Caracalla occupied a square of a quarter of a mile in length and nearly the same in breadth, and its...
Seite 85 - PROBLEM X. — To find the Length of the Day and Night at any Time of the Year.
Seite 53 - They were unenlightened by science, and unacquainted with that religion) which enjoins men to do unto others as they would that others should do unto them.
Seite 22 - No. 2. they described as a country of gloomy hills, assailed by wintry tempests; of lakes concealed in a blue mist; and of cold and lonely heaths, over which the deer of the forest were chased by a troop of half-naked barbarians. When the Romans invaded Britain, it was divided into a number of small independent states. At that time they had hardly any thing answering to our ideas of a city or town. Their dwellings, like those of the ancient Germans, were scattered sometimes on the banks of a rivulet,...
Seite 86 - May, when the sun's declination is 17° 3ff, all those people who live under that parallel of north latitude have the sun in their zenith that day at noon ; among them you will find the inhabitants of Jamaica, the midland parts of Africa, and Pegu in India, &c. NOTE — The sun can never be vertical butto those who live in the torrid zone.
Seite 85 - Therefore, when the gun's place is brought to the eastern or western edge of the horizon, you will there .see the point of the compass upon which the sun rises or sets that day. At what hour does the sun rise at...