The Antiquities of Constantinople. Gilles Pierre

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       THE PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR, Describing the Situation of Constantinople , the Conveniences of its Port, and the Commodities in which it abounds.

       THE ANTIQUITIES OF Constantinople . BOOK I.

       Chap. I. Of the Founders of Byzantium, and the different Successes and Revolutions of that City .

       Chap. II. Of the Extent of Old Byzantium.

       Chap. III. Of the Rebuilding of Byzantium by Constantine the Great, and the Largeness of it in his Time .

       Chap. IV. Of the present Figure, Compass, Length and Breadth of Constantinople.

       Chap. V. A general Description of Constantinople.

       Chap. VI. Of the Situation of all the Parts of the City describ’d.

       Chap. VII. Of the first Hill, of the Palace of the Grand Seignor, of the Church of St. Sophia, and the Hippodrom.

       Chap. VIII. Of the first Valley.

       Chap. IX. Of the second Hill.

       Chap. X. Of the second Valley, which divides the second from the third Hill.

       Chap. XI. Of the third Hill.

       Chap. XII. Of the third Valley.

       Chap. XIII. Of the fourth Hill.

       Chap. XIV. Of the Fifth Hill.

       Chap. XV. Of the Fifth Valley.

       Chap. XVI.

       Chap. XVII. Of the Valley which divides the Promontory from the seventh Hill .

       Chap. XVIII. Of the seventh Hill.

       Chap. XIX. Of the Walls of the City.

       Chap. XX. Of the Gates of Constantinople, and the seven Towers of Old Byzantium.

       Chap. XXI. Of the long Walls.

       THE ANTIQUITIES OF Constantinople . BOOK II.

       Chap. I. Of the Buildings and Monuments of Old Byzantium and Constantinople, called New Rome.

       Chap. II. Of the Ancient Monuments of the first Hill, and of the first Ward of the City .

       Chap. III. Of the Church of St. Sophia.

       Chap. IV. A Description of the Church of St. Sophia, as it now appears .

       Chap. V. Of the Statues discover’d on one Side of the Church of St. Sophia.

       Chap. VI. Of the Pharo on the Promontory Ceras, and the Mangana.

       Chap. VII. Of the Bagnio’s of Zeuxippus and its Statues .

       Chap. VIII. Of the Hospitals of Sampson and Eubulus.

       Chap. IX. Of the Statue of Eudoxia Augusta, for which St. Chrysostom was sent into Banishment .

       Chap. X. Of those Parts of the City which are contain’d in the third Ward.

       Chap. XI. Of the Hippodrom, its Obelisk, its Statues, and Columns.

       Chap. XII. Of the Colossus.

       Chap. XIII. Of some other Columns in the Hippodrom.

       Chap. XIV. Of the Church of Bacchus, the Court of Hormisda, and the House of Justinian.

       Chap. XV. Of the Port of Julian, and Sophia; of the Portico nam’d Sigma, and the Palace of Sophia.

       Chap. XVI. Of the Fourth Ward.

       Chap. XVII. Of the Forum called the Augustæum, of the Pillar of Theodosius, and Justinian, and the Senate-House.

       Chap. XVIII. Of the Imperial Palace, the Basilica; of the Palace of Constantine, and the House of Entrance nam’d Chalca.

       Chap. XIX. Of the Basilica, and the Imperial Walks .

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