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| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. | [v] |
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| CONTENTS. | [vii] |
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| DIALOGUE. | [xi] |
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| I. | |
| THE EXHUMED CITY. | |
| The Antique Landscape.—The History of Pompeii Before
and After its Destruction.—How it was Buried and
Exhumed.—Winkelmann as a Prophet.—The Excavations
in the Reign of Charles III., of Murat, and of
Ferdinand.—The Excavations as they now are.—Signor
Fiorelli.—Appearance of the Ruins.—What is and What
is not found there. | [13] |
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| II. | |
| THE FORUM. | |
| Diomed's Inn.—The Niche of Minerva.—The Appearance
and The Monuments of the Forum.—The Antique
Temple.—The Pagan ex-Voto Offerings.—The Merchants'
City Exchange and the Petty Exchange.—The Pantheon,
or was it a Temple, a Slaughter-house, or a
Tavern?—The Style of Cooking, and the Form of
Religion.—The Temple of Venus.—The Basilica.—The
Inscriptions of Passers-by upon the Walls.—The Forum
Rebuilt. | [37] |
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| III. | |
| THE STREET. | |
| The Plan of Pompeii.—The Princely Names of the
Houses.—Appearance of the Streets, Pavements, Sidewalks,
etc.—The Shops and the Signs.—The Perfumer, the Surgeon,
etc.—An Ancient Manufactory.—Bathing
Establishments.—Wine-shops, Disreputable Resorts.—Hanging
Balconies, Fountains.—Public Placards: Let us
Nominate Battur! Commit no Nuisance!—Religion on
the Street. | [67] |
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| IV. | |
| THE SUBURBS. | |
| The Custom House.—The Fortifications and the Gates,—The
Roman Highways.—The Cemetery of Pompeii.—Funerals:
the Procession, the funeral Pyre, the Day of
the Dead.—The Tombs and their Inscriptions.—Perpetual
Leases.—Burial of the Rich, of Animals, and of
the Poor.—The Villas of Diomed and Cicero. | [93] |
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| V. | |
| THE THERMÆ. | |
| The Hot Baths at Rome.—The Thermæ of Stabiæ.—A
Tilt at Sun Dials.—A Complete Bath, as the Ancients
Considered It: the Apartments, the Slaves, the Unguents,
the Strigillæ.—A Saying of the Emperor Hadrian.—The
Baths for Women.—The Reading Room.—The
Roman Newspaper.—The Heating-Apparatus. | [120] |
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| VI. | |
| THE DWELLINGS. | |
| Paratus and Pansa.—The Atrium and the Peristyle.—The
Dwelling Refurnished and Repeopled.—The Slaves, the
Kitchen, and the Table.—The Morning Occupations of
a Pompeian.—The Toilet of a Pompeian Lady.—A Citizen
Supper: the Courses, the Guests.—The Homes of
the Poor, and the Palaces of Rome. | [135] |
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| VII. | |
| ART IN POMPEII. | |
| The Homes of the Wealthy.—The Triangular Forum and
the Temples.—Pompeian Architecture: Its Merits and
its Defects.—The Artists of the Little City.—The
Paintings here.—Landscapes, Figures, Rope-dancers,
Dancing-girls, Centaurs, Gods, Heroes, the Iliad Illustrated.—Mosaics.—Statues
and Statuettes.—Jewelry.—Carved
Glass.—Art and Life. | [167] |
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| VIII. | |
| THE THEATRES. | |
| The Arrangement of the Places of Amusement.—Entrance
Tickets.—The Velarium, the Orchestra, the Stage.—The
Odeon.—The Holconii.—The Side Scenes, the Masks.—The
Atellan Farces.—The Mimes.—Jugglers, etc.—A
Remark of Cicero on the Melodramas.—The Barrack
of the Gladiators.—Scratched Inscriptions, Instruments
of Torture.—The Pompeian Gladiators.—The Amphitheatre:
Hunts, Combats, Butcheries, etc. | [199] |
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| IX. | |
| THE ERUPTION. | |
| The Deluge of Ashes.—The Deluge of Fire.—The Flight
of the Pompeians.—The Preoccupations of the Pompeian
Women.—The Victims: the Family of Diomed; the
Sentinel; the Woman Walled up in a Tomb; the Priest
of Isis; the Lovers clinging together, etc.—The Skeletons.—The
Dead Bodies moulded by Vesuvius. | [232] |
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| AN ITINERARY. | [245] |