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The Antiquities of Constantinople / With a Description of Its Situation, the Conveniencies of Its Port, Its Publick Buildings, the Statuary, Sculpture, Architecture, and Other Curiosities of That City Pierre Gilles · Architecture · 20 章
目录 In Four Books. Written Originally in Latin by Petrus Gyllius a Byzantine Historian. TO Richard Banner, Esq; OF PERRY-HALL, IN THE County of STAFFORD. THE PREFACE OF THE TRANSLATOR. CONTENTS. THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR, Describing the Situation of Constantinople, the Conveniences of its Port, and the Commodities in which it abounds. Chap. XII. Of the third Valley. Chap. XXI. Of the long Walls. Chap. XI. Of the Hippodrom, its Obelisk, its Statues, and Columns. Chap. XVIII. Of the Imperial Palace, the Basilica; of the Palace of Constantine, and the House of Entrance nam’d Chalca. Chap. XXV. Of the Lausus, and its Statues; namely, a Venus of Cnidos, a Juno of Samos, a Minerva of Lindia, a winged Cupid, a Jupiter Olympius, a Saturn, Unicorns, Tygers, Vultures, Beasts that are half Camels, and half Panthers; of the Cistern of the Hospital called Philoxenos, and the Chrysotriclinium. Chap. VII. Of the eighth Ward, and the Hind-part of the third Hill. Chap. IX. Of the third Valley, and the tenth Ward; of the House of Placidia, and her Palace; of the Aqueduct of Valentinian, the Bagnio’s of Constantine, and the Nympheum. Chap. VIII. Of the Statues, and the antient Tripos of Apollo, standing in the Xerolophon. Chap. XI. A Description of Galata; of the Temples of Amphiaraus, Diana, and Venus; of the Theatre of Sycæ, and the Forum of Honorius. APPENDIX. AN Explanatory Index. A DESCRIPTION Of the CITY of Constantinople, As it stood in the Reigns of Arcadius and Honorius. NOTES. Some Account of the Suburbs as they are mention’d in the Codes and Law-Books. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE