Brief History of Ancient Peoples: With Some Account of Their Monuments, Institutions, Arts, Manners and CustomsAmerican Book Company, 1881 - 312 עמודים |
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Brief History of Ancient Peoples <span dir=ltr>Joel Dorman Steele</span>,<span dir=ltr>Esther Baker Steele</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2015 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
afterward Ahura Mazda Alexander ancient army Asia Minor assembly Asshur Assyrian Athenian Athens Augustus Babylon Babylonian battle beautiful became bronze Cæsar called Carthage Carthaginians centuries Chaldean chariot Cicero citizens civilization conquered consul court Cyrus death decemvirs defeated deities dynasty Egypt Egyptian emperor empire enemy Etruscans famous father favorite feet fleet Forum friends Gauls glory goddess gods gold golden Grecian Greece Greek hand Hannibal head Hellas helots Herodotus honor horse hundred Italy king land Latin Macedon magnificent Marathon marble Marius Medes monarch nations Nile Nineveh noble palace patricians Peloponnesian War Pericles Persian Phoenician plebeians plebs poet Pompey priests province religion rich Roman Rome royal sacred sacrifice sculptures senate sent siege slaves Socrates soldiers Sophocles Spartan statue stone tablets temple Thebes Themistocles thousand throne Tiber tombs took tribes victory walls wife wine worship
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 162 - Miiller maintains that the story of the siege of Troy is a development of this simple Vedic myth, and is " but a repetition of the daily siege of the East by the Solar powers that every evening are robbed of their brightest treasures in the west.
עמוד 111 - When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path. What you do not like, when done to yourself, do not do to others.
עמוד 78 - The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
עמוד 165 - Oh, our .(Eschylus, the thunderous, How he drove the bolted breath Through the cloud, to wedge it ponderous In the gnarled oak beneath ! Oh, our Sophocles, the royal, Who was born to monarch's place And who made the whole world loyal, Less by kingly power than grace 1 _l zn. Our Euripides, the human, With his droppings of warm tears, And his touches of things common Till they rose to touch the spheres...
עמוד 162 - Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread.
עמוד 111 - He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
עמוד 25 - If thou art become great, after thou hast been humble, and if thou hast amassed riches after poverty, being because of that the...
עמוד 192 - ... Iphicrates) took little or no account of light-armed soldiers in a pitched battle, using them only in skirmishes, or for the pursuit of a defeated enemy. The panoply of the regular infantry consisted of a long spear, of a shield, helmet, breast-plate, greaves, and short sword. Thus equipped, they usually advanced slowly and steadily into action in a uniform phalanx of about eight spears deep. But the military genius of Miltiades led him to deviate on this occasion from the commonplace tactics...
עמוד 163 - The foeman glories o'er my shield— I left it on the battle-field: I threw it down beside the wood, Unscathed by scars, unstained with blood. And let him glory: since from death Escaped, I keep my forfeit breath, I soon may find at little cost As good a shield as that I've lost.
עמוד 112 - I had been born beyond the seas, in some remote part of the earth, where the people — far removed from the converting maxims of the ancient kings, and ignorant of the domestic relations — are clothed with the leaves of plants, eat wood, dwell in the wilderness, and live in the holes of the earth.