-342_)--Greek Vases--Inscriptions on Vases--Historical
Subjects on Vases--Uses of Vases--Vases Found in Tombs--Silver
Vessels--Decorated Vases 281-342
EMPLOYMENT.
Colored Glass Vessels--Imitation Jewels--Potters--Carpenter's
Tools--Professions--Husbandry--Rise of the Nile--Agricultural
Implements--Agriculture--_Baking, Dyeing and Painting_ (_Page
363-384_)--Flour Mills--Bread-Baking--Dyeing--Scouring and
Dyeing--Coloring Substances--Mineral Used for Dyeing--Cost of
Dyeing--Cloth Manufacture--Persian Costumes 343-384
TROY.
Ruins at Hissarlik--Settlement of Troy--First Settlers--Scaean
Gate--Call of Menelaus--Houses at Troy--Objects Found in
Houses--Silver Vases--Taking out the Treasure--Shield of the
Treasure--Contents of the Treasure--Ear-Rings and Chains--Gold
Buttons, Studs, Etc.--Silver Goblet and Vases--Weapons of
Troy-- Terra Cotta Mugs--Condition of the Roads--Lack of
Inscriptions 385-422
NINEVEH AND BABYLON.
Explorations of Niebuhr and Rich--Excavations at Kouyunjik
Palace--Sennacherib's Conquests--Highly-Finished Sculptures--North
Palace, Kouyunjik--Temple of Solomon--The Oracle--Description of
the Palace--Modern Houses of Persia--Chambers in the Palace--The
Walls--Grandeur of Babylon--Building Materials--History of
Babylon--_Karnac and Baalbec_ (_Page 461-473_)--Stupendous
Remains--Temple of Luxor--Chambers of the Great Pyramid--The
Great Temple--The Pantheon at Rome--Egyptian Obelisks--
Obelisks 423-484
RELIGION OR MYTHOLOGY.
Mythology--Mythological Characters--The Pythian Apollo--Phoebus
Apollo--Niobe and Leto--Daphne--Kyrene--Hermes--The Sorrow of
Demeter--The Sleep of Endymion--Phaethon--Briareos--Dionysos--
Pentheus--Asklepios--Ixion--Tantalos--The Toils of Herakles--
Admetos--Epimetheus and Pandora--Io and Prometheus--Deukalion--
Poseidon and Athene--Medusa--Danae--Perseus--Andromeda--
Akrisios--Kephalos and Prokris--Skylla--Phrixos and Helle--
Medeia--Theseus--Ariadne--Arethusa--Tyro--Narkissos--Orpheus
and Eurydike--Kadmos and Europa--Bellerophon--Althaia and the
Burning Brand--Iamos 485-642
FINE ARTS.
Egyptian Sculpture--Etruscan Painting--Renowned Painters--
Parrhasius--Colors Used--Sculpture Painting--Fresc
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