Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 2 of 2). Charles Bucke

1

Dodwell.

2

Barthelemy.

3

Dodwell.

4

Barthelemy; Rollin; Dodwell; Clarke.

5

Knight.

6

Chandler.

7

Clarke.

8

Clarke.

9

Strabo; Pausanias; Rollin; Wheler; Barthelemy; Chandler; Turner; Clarke.

10

Gillies.

11

Acts xx. ver. 13. And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.

14. And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.

15. And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.

16. For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.

17. And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called the elders of the church.

18. And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons.

12

He was the first that accurately calculated eclipses of the sun; he discovered the solstices; he divided the heavens into five zones, and recommended the division of the year into three hundred and sixty-five days.

13

The inventor of sun-dials and the gnomon. This philosopher had nevertheless many curious opinions; amongst which may be mentioned, that air was the parent of every created being; and that the sun, moon, and stars, had been made from the earth.

14

He taught that men were born of earth and water, mixed together by the heat of the sun.

15

An historian.

16

A musician.

17

Ionian Antiquities.

18

Herodotus; Strabo; Pausanias; Quintus Curtius; Prideaux; Chandler; Stuart; Barthelemy; Gillies.

19

This was written in 1806, and published in 1819.

20

Pausanias; Dodwell; La Martine.

21

Barthelemy; Dodwell; Rees; Brewster.

22

See Herod. i. c. 184; Diodor. Sic. ii.; Pompon. Mela, i. c. 3; Justin. i. c. 1; Val. Max. ix. c. 3.

23

The character of Sardanapalus has been treated more gently by a modern poet. “The Sardanapalus of Lord Byron is pretty nearly such a person as the Sardanapalus of history may be supposed to have been, – young, thoughtless, spoiled by flattery and unbounded self-indulgence; but, with a temper naturally amiable, and abilities of a superior order, he affects to undervalue the sanguinary renown of his ancestors, as an excuse for inattention to the most necessary duties of his rank; and flatters himself, while he is indulging his own sloth, that he is making his people happy. Yet, even in his fondness for pleasure, there lurks a love of contradiction. Of the whole picture, selfishness is the prevailing feature; – selfishness admirably drawn, indeed; apologised for by every palliating circumstance of education and habit, and clothed in the brightest colours of which it is susceptible, from youth, talents, and placidity. But it is selfishness still; and we should have been tempted to quarrel with the art which made vice and frivolity thus amiable, if Lord Byron had not, at the same time, pointed out with much skill the bitterness and weariness of spirit which inevitably wait on such a character; and if he had not given a fine contrast to the picture, in the accompanying portraits of Salamenes and Myrrha.” – Heber.

24

Atherstone’s “Fall of Nineveh.”

25

Ælian calls him Thilgamus.

26

2 Kings.

27

Adrammelech and Sharezer.

28

2 Kings, xix. ver. 37.

29

Tobit, xiv. ver. 5, 13

30

Nahum, chap. iii.

31

Zephaniah, chap. ii.

32

Soon after the great fire of London, the rector of St. Michael, Queenhithe, preached a sermon before the Lord Mayor and corporation of London, in which he instituted a parallel between the cities of London and Nineveh, to show that unless the inhabitants of the former repented of their many public and private vices, and reformed their lives and manners, as did the Ninevites on the preaching of Jonah, they might justly be expected to become the objects of the signal vengeance of Heaven: putting them in mind of the many dreadful calamities that have, from time to time, befallen the English nation in general, and the great City of London in particular; and of the too great reason there was to apprehend some yet more signal vengeance from the hands of Omnipotence, since former judgments had not proved examples sufficient to warn and amend a very wicked people.

33

Diodorus says, that Nineveh stood on the Euphrates: but this is contrary to all evidence.

34

One of these is in the British Museum.

35

Daughter of Sir James Mackintosh, and wife of Mr. Rich.

36

Herodotus; Diodorus Siculus; Ælian; Prideaux; Rollin; Stackhouse; Gibbon; Rees; Brewster; Kinneir; Morier; Rich.

37

Strabo; Plutarch; Brydone; Swinburne; Jose.

38

The computation of time by Olympiads, which began about four hundred years after the destruction of Troy, was used until the reign of Theodosius the Great; when a new mode of reckoning, by indictions, or from the victory of Augustus at Actium, was introduced; the Olympic games, in the general assembly, were abolished; and the image, made by Phidias, was removed to Constantinople. – Chandler.

39

Gen. xxxii. 24.

40

Πᾶν κράτος.

41

There is a fine specimen in the Townley gallery, at the British Museum.

42

Chandler.

43

Chandler.

44

Clarke; Pausanias; Plutarch; Rollin; Chandler; Barthelemy; Dodwell.

45

“This name indicates,” says Mr. Swinburne, “that they pursued, or wished to be thought to pursue, a line of conduct in commercial transactions, which it would be happy for mankind, all maritime powers would adopt.”

46

Pholas