CONTENTS.
THE Preface of the Author, describing the Situation of Constantinople, the Conveniencies of its Port, and the Commodities in which it abounds,
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Chap. I. Of the Founders of Byzantium, and the differentSuccesses and Revolutions of that City, | Page [13] |
II. Of the Extent of Old Byzantium, | p. [20] |
III. Of the Rebuilding it by Constantine the Great, and theLargeness of it in his Time, | p. [21] |
IV. Of the present Figure, Compass, Length, and Breadth ofConstantinople, | p. [29] |
V. A General Description of Constantinople, | p. [32] |
VI. The Situation of all the Parts of the City describ’d, | p. [35] |
VII. Of the First Hill, the Palace of the Grand Seignor, the Churchof St. Sophia, and the Hippodrom, | p. [36] |
VIII. Of the First Valley, | p. [43] |
IX. Of the Second Hill, | p. [44] |
X. Of the Second Valley, which divides the Second from the ThirdHill, | p. [48] |
XI. Of the Third Hill, | p. [50] |
XII. Of the Third Valley, | p. [54] |
XIII. Of the Fourth Hill, | p. [55] |
XIV. Of the Fifth Hill, | p. [59] |
XV. Of the Fifth Valley, | p. [61] |
XVI. Of the Sixth Hill, | p. [62] |
XVII. Of the Valley which divides the Promontory of the Sixth Hillfrom the Seventh Hill, | p. [64] |
XVIII. Of the Seventh Hill, | p. [65] |
XIX. Of the Walls of the City, | p. [67] |
XX. Of the Gates of Constantinople, and the Seven Towers of OldByzantium, | p. [70] |
XXI. Of the long Walls, | p. [72] |
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Chap. I. Of the Buildingsand Monuments of Old Byzantiumand Constantinople, | p. [73] |
II. Of the Antient Monuments of the First Hill, andof the First Wardof the City, | p. [75] |
III. Of the Church of St. Sophia, | p. [82] |
IV. A Description of the Church of St. Sophia,as it now appears, | p. [87] |
V. Of the Statues found on one Side of that Church, | p. [95] |
VI. Of the Pharo on the Promontoryof Ceras, and the Mangana, | p. [96] |
VII. Of the Bagnio’s of Zeuxippus,and its Statues, | p. [97] |
VIII. Of the Hospitals of Sampson,and Eubulus, | p. [100] |
IX. Of the Statue of Eudocia Augusta,for which St. Chrysostom was sent into Banishment, | p. [101] |
X. Of those Parts of the City which arecontain’d in the Third Ward, | p. [102] |
XI. Of the Hippodrom, its Obelisk,its Statues, and Columns, | p. [103] |
XII. Of the Colossus, | p. [108] |
XIII. Of some other Columns inthe Hippodrom, | p. [110] |
XIV. Of the Church of Bacchus,of the Court of Hormisda, and the House of Justinian, | p. [117] |
XV. Of the Port of Julian andSophia; of the Portico nam’d Sigma, and the Palace of St. Sophia, | p. [120] |
XVI. Of the Fourth Ward, | p. [126] |
XVII. Of the Forum calledAugusteum, the Pillar of Theodosius, and Justinian, also ofthe Senate-house, | p. [127] |
XVIII. Of the Imperial Palace, and the Basilica, as also of the Palace of Constantine, and of the House of Entrance nam’d Chalca, | p. [133] |
XIX. Of the Basilica, and the Imperial Walks, | p. [140] |
XX. Of the Imperial Library and Portico, and also of the Imperial Cistern, | p. [143] |
XXI. Of the Chalcopratia, | p. [148] |
XXII. Of the Portico’s situate between the Palace, and the Forum of Constantine, | p. [150] |
XXIII. Of the Miliarium Aureum, and its Statues; of Fortune, the Goddess of the City, and her Statue, | p. [152] |
XXIV. Of the Temple of Neptune, and the Church of St. Mina or Menna, of the Stadia, and Stairs of Timasius, | p. [157] |
XXV. Of the Lausus, and its Statues;viz. a Venus of Cnidos, a Juno of Samos, a Minervaof Lindia, a winged Cupid, a Jupiter Olympius, a Saturn,Unicorns, Tygers, Vultures, Beasts that are half Camels and half Panthers; of theCistern, in an Hospital, which was call’d Philoxenos, and a Chrysotriclinium, | p. [159] |
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Chap. I. Of several Placesin the Fifth Ward, and theSecond Hill; of the Neorium, of the Port nam’d the Bosporium, ofthe Strategium, and the Forum of Theodosius, | p. [164] |
II. Of the Sixth Ward, and the remaining antient Buildings of theSecond Hill, | p. [171] |
III. Of the Porphyry Pillar, the Forum of Constantine, and thePalladium, | p. [172] |
IV. Of the Senate House, the Nympheum, and the Statues in theForum of Constantine, of the Labarum and Supparum, of thePhiladelphium, of the Death of Arius, and of the Temples of Tellus,Ceres, Persephone, Juno, and Pluto, | p. [181] |
V. Of the Seventh Ward, | p. [190] |
VI. Of the Street call’d Taurus, of the Forum, and Pillar ofTheodosius, which had winding Stairs within it; of the Tetrapylum,the Pyramidical Engine of the Winds, of the Statues of Arcadius,and Honorius, the Churches of Hirena, and Anastasia, and theRocks called Scyronides, | p. [193] |
VII. Of the Eighth Ward, and the Back-part of the Third Hill, | p. [202] |
VIII. Of the Ninth Ward, of the Temple of Concord, of theGranaries of Alexandria and Theodosius, of the Baths of Anastasia,of the House of Craterus, of the Modius, and the Temple of the Sunand Moon, | p. [205] |
IX. Of the Third Valley and the Tenth Ward, of the House, andPalace of Placidia, of the Aqueducts of Valentinian, the Baths ofConstantius, and the Nympheum, | p. [209] |