Title: Ancient Rome: The Lives of Great Men
Author: Mary Agnes Hamilton
Release date: October 3, 2010 [eBook #34025]
Most recently updated: January 7, 2021
Language: English
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Contents (added by transcriber)
List of Illustrations
Lives of Great Men
RUINS OF A ROMAN TOWN
see caption
POMPEII
ROME AND THE TIBER
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| I | INTRODUCTORY: The People and City of Rome |
| II | The Early Heroes |
| III | The Great Enemies of Rome |
| IV | The Scipios |
| V | The Gracchi |
| VI | Cato the Censor |
| VII | Caius Marius and Lucius Cornelius Sulla |
| VIII | The New Rome |
| IX | Lucius Licinius Lucullus |
| X | Cnaeus Pompeius |
| XI | Marcus Licinius Crassus |
| XII | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| XIII | Caius Julius Caesar |
| PAGE | |
| Ruins of a Roman Town—Pompeii | 1 |
| Rome and the Tiber | 2 |
The 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) | 13 |
Lacus Curtius. Restored. (From C. Huelsen, Das Forum Romanum. Maglioni and Strini, Rome) |
17 |
Pyrrhus. (From a photograph by Richter & Co., Naples) |
25 |
The Desolation of Carthage To-day. (From a photograph by Prof. J. L. Myres) |
30 |
Carthaginian Priestess. (From The Carthage of the Phoenicians, by permission of Mr. W. Heinemann) |
31 |
Pictures from Pompeii of a Mimic Naval Battle |
32, 33 |
Great St. Bernard Pass. (From a photograph by F. J. Hall) |
37 |
Trasimene. (From a photograph by Alinari) |
40 |
Helmet found on the Field of Cannae. (British Museum) |
43 |
| A Coin of Victory | 47 |
| Scipio Africanus | 49 |
| Tragic and Comic Masks | 58 |
Costume. The Roman Toga. (British Museum) |
65 |
Elaborate Lamp. To show the luxury of later times |
69 |
The Tomb of a Roman Family, to show simplicity of dress. (From a photograph by Alinari) |
74 |
Ploughing. A Terra-cotta Group. (Journal of Hellenic Studies) |
75 |
The Shrine of the Lar, from a House in Pompeii |
77 |
The Aristocrat distributing Largesse; The Fisherman; The Rich Matron; The Shepherdess. (Capitoline Museum) |
80-3 |
| Trophy of Victory. (Capitoline Museum) | 84 |
| Sulla, from a coin | 89 |
| Mithridates, from a coin | 92 |
| A Boar Hunt. (Capitoline Museum) | 96 |
| Scene from a tragedy. Terra-cotta relief | 97 |
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 | 111 |
A 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 | 131 |
Arpinum, Cicero’s birthplace. (From a photograph by Alinari) |
132 |
Julius Caesar. (From a gem in the British Museum) |
142 |
Julius Caesar. (From a bust in the British Museum) |
143 |
Submission of Tribes, from a relief. (Capitoline Museum) |
150 |
Roman Legionary Helmet found in Britain. (British Museum) |
151 |
| The Heights of Alesia | 152 |
| Marcus Antonius, from a coin | 153 |
| Cleopatra, from a coin | 156 |
A Roman Coin celebrating the Murder of Caesar |
157 |
| A Cinerary Urn | 159 |
A Roman Water-carrier with his Water-skin on his Back |
160 |
THE HILLS ROUND HORACE’S FARM
from a drawing by E. Lear