Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, المجلد 1William Smith Walton and Maberly, 1856 - 2491 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 20
... Arabia Felix , a short distance to the S. of Mocha , and to the N. of the opening of the strait of Babel Mandeb . ( Strab . p . 769 ; Plin . vi . 23. s . 26 , 28. s . 32 ; Ptol . vi . 7 . § 7. ) By some geographers it is identified with ...
... Arabia Felix , a short distance to the S. of Mocha , and to the N. of the opening of the strait of Babel Mandeb . ( Strab . p . 769 ; Plin . vi . 23. s . 26 , 28. s . 32 ; Ptol . vi . 7 . § 7. ) By some geographers it is identified with ...
الصفحة 24
... Arabia . It became at a very early period the great mart for the trade between Egypt , Arabia , and India ; and although destroyed by the Romans , probably by Aelius Gallus in his expedition against Arabia , in the reign of Augustus ...
... Arabia . It became at a very early period the great mart for the trade between Egypt , Arabia , and India ; and although destroyed by the Romans , probably by Aelius Gallus in his expedition against Arabia , in the reign of Augustus ...
الصفحة 25
... Arabian tribe in the district Chatramotitis of Arabia Felix . They were situated on the coast of the Red Sea eastward of Aden , and their name is still preserved in the modern Hadramaut . Like their immediate neighbours in Arabia Felix ...
... Arabian tribe in the district Chatramotitis of Arabia Felix . They were situated on the coast of the Red Sea eastward of Aden , and their name is still preserved in the modern Hadramaut . Like their immediate neighbours in Arabia Felix ...
الصفحة 29
... Arabia and Aethiopia , as far as the frontier of Egypt . Among other names , which we can identify with the extant appellations of African districts , occurs that of the most mountainous region in Abyssinia , the Semenae , or Samen ...
... Arabia and Aethiopia , as far as the frontier of Egypt . Among other names , which we can identify with the extant appellations of African districts , occurs that of the most mountainous region in Abyssinia , the Semenae , or Samen ...
الصفحة 36
... Arabian Gulf , the Stony Arabia , Idumaea , and the southwestern frontier of Palestine ; to the N. , the Mediterranean Sea ; and to the W. , the Libyan desert . Homer ( Od . iv . 477 ) calls the Nile itself & Alyʊntos ; nor is the ...
... Arabian Gulf , the Stony Arabia , Idumaea , and the southwestern frontier of Palestine ; to the N. , the Mediterranean Sea ; and to the W. , the Libyan desert . Homer ( Od . iv . 477 ) calls the Nile itself & Alyʊntos ; nor is the ...
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الصفحة 56 - Towards the end of the first or the beginning of the second century after Christ, these lands were incorporated in the Roman empire.
الصفحة 237 - Look once more ere we leave this specular mount Westward, much nearer by south-west, behold Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence...
الصفحة 250 - Parthenon, ... no two are parallel. This asymmetria is productive of very great beauty; for it not only obviates the dry uniformity of too many parallel lines, but also produces exquisite varieties of light and shade.
الصفحة 296 - Santo end a good watering-place for shipping; the water (except in very dry weather) runs out in a good stream. The distance across is 2500 yards, which agrees very well with the breadth of twelve stadia assigned by Herodotus. The width of the canal appears to have been about 18 or 20 feet; the level of the earth nowhere exceeds 15 feet above the sea; the soil is a light clay.
الصفحة 96 - Strabo, the position of which, as already described, is exactly confirmed by the Stadiasmus, as well as by Ptolemy. There was a fourth pass, as Major Rennell has justly observed, which crossing Mount Amanus from the eastward, descended upon the centre of the head of the gulf, near Issus. By this pass it was that Dareius marched from Sochus, and took up his position on the banks of the Pinarus ; by which movement Alexander, who had just before marched from Mallus to Myriandrus, through the two maritime...
الصفحة 261 - This statue was made of olive-wood, and was said to have fallen down from heaven. Here was the sacred olive-tree, which Athena called forth from the earth in her contest with Poseidon for the possession of Attica; here also was the well of salt water which Poseidon produced by the stroke of his trident, the impression of which was seen upon the rock ; and here, lastly, was the tomb of Oecrops as well as that of Ercchtbeus. . . . The form of the Erechtheium differs from every other known example of...
الصفحة 259 - On both sides, and towards the door, is a kind of gallery, made with two ranks of pillars, twenty-two below, and twentythree above. The odd pillar is over the arch of the entrance, which was left for the passage.
الصفحة 352 - Roman marriages at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century were childless.
الصفحة 272 - Vestiges of brazen and goldencoloured arms, of a blue sky, and of blue, green, and red drapery, are still very apparent.
الصفحة 124 - By its harbour of Seleucia it was in communication with all the trade of the Mediterranean ; and, through the open country behind the Lebanon, it was conveniently approached by the caravans from Mesopotamia and Arabia. It united the inland advantages of Aleppo with the maritime opportunities of Smyrna.