History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . Map of Rome under the Emperors in the Greek or Hellenistic manner as we find it in the housesof Pompeii (Fig. 68), which we are yet to visit. If Rome was a borrower in art, she was even more so in had no such men as Archimedes (§ 280) and Eratosthenes(§ 281). The leading geography of the time was written by aGreek living in Rome, named Strabo. Although it sadly lackedin scientific method, it was for many centuries the worldsstandard geography and may still be read with great pleasure andprofit as
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . Map of Rome under the Emperors in the Greek or Hellenistic manner as we find it in the housesof Pompeii (Fig. 68), which we are yet to visit. If Rome was a borrower in art, she was even more so in had no such men as Archimedes (§ 280) and Eratosthenes(§ 281). The leading geography of the time was written by aGreek living in Rome, named Strabo. Although it sadly lackedin scientific method, it was for many centuries the worldsstandard geography and may still be read with great pleasure andprofit as an ancient book of Figs. 63 and 64. Sculptures of Hellenistic Pergamum Above (Fig. 63) is a Gallic trumpeter, as he sinks in death with histrumpet at his feet (§ 278). Below (Fig. 64) is a part of the friezearound the great altar of Zeus at Pergamum (Fig. 52). It pictures themythical struggle between gods and giants. A giant at the left, whoselimbs end in serpents, raises over his head a great stone to hurl it atthe goddess on the right (§ 278)
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