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Contents (added by transcriber)
List of Illustrations
Lives of Great Men
RUINS OF A ROMAN TOWN
POMPEII
ANCIENT ROME
The Lives of Great Men
told by
MARY AGNES HAMILTON
Brutus and Tarquin · Lucretia · Mucius · Cloelia · Regulus
Marcus Curtius · Coriolanus · Volumnia · Pyrrhus
Fabricius · Hamilcar · Hannibal · Flaminius · Fabius
Marcellus · The Scipios · The Gracchi · Cato · Marius
Drusus · Sulla · Mithridates · Lucullus · Pompeius
Crassus · Cicero · Caesar
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Humphrey Milford
1922
ROME AND THE TIBER
CONTENTS
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IINTRODUCTORY: The People and City of Rome
II The Early Heroes III The Great Enemies of Rome IV The Scipios V The Gracchi
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE Ruins of a Roman Town—Pompeii 1 Rome and the Tiber 2The Hills round Horace’s Farm. From a drawing by E. Lear
5 Lar, or Household God 7 Etruscan Soldier. (British Museum) 12 Roman Legionary. (British Museum) 13Lacus Curtius. Restored. (From C. Huelsen, Das Forum Romanum. Maglioni and Strini, Rome)
17Pyrrhus. (From a photograph by Richter & Co., Naples)
25The Desolation of Carthage To-day. (From a photograph by Prof. J. L. Myres)
Carthaginian Priestess. (From The Carthage of the Phoenicians, by permission of Mr. W. Heinemann)
31Pictures from Pompeii of a Mimic Naval Battle
32, 33Great St. Bernard Pass. (From a photograph by F. J. Hall)
37Trasimene. (From a photograph by Alinari)
40Helmet found on the Field of Cannae. (British Museum)
43 A Coin of Victory 47 Scipio Africanus 49 Tragic and Comic Masks 58Costume. The Roman Toga. (British Museum)
65Elaborate Lamp. To show the luxury of later times
69The Tomb of a Roman Family, to show simplicity of dress. (From a photograph by Alinari)
74Ploughing. A Terra-cotta Group. (Journal of Hellenic Studies)
75The Shrine of the Lar, from a House in Pompeii
77The Aristocrat distributing Largesse; The Fisherman; The Rich Matron; The Shepherdess. (Capitoline Museum)
80-3 Trophy of Victory. (Capitoline Museum)Cutler’s Forge and Cutler’s Shop. (From the gravestone of L. Cornelius Atimetus, a Roman Cutler)
98, 99 Writing Materials. (British Museum) 101 Pompeius 109 A Vase in the shape of a Galley 111A Triumph, from a relief of the Empire. (Capitoline Museum)
114 A Roman Villa on the Coast 116 A Thracian Gladiator 125 Orodes the Parthian 128 Cicero 131Arpinum, Cicero’s birthplace. (From a photograph by Alinari)
132Julius Caesar. (From a gem in the British Museum)
142Julius Caesar. (From a bust in the British Museum)
143Submission of Tribes, from a relief.
Roman Legionary Helmet found in Britain. (British Museum)
151 The Heights of Alesia 152 Marcus Antonius, from a coin 153 Cleopatra, from a coin 156A Roman Coin celebrating the Murder of Caesar
157 A Cinerary Urn 159A Roman Water-carrier with his Water-skin on his Back
160
THE HILLS ROUND HORACE’S FARM
from a drawing by E. Lear