Pleasure of RuinsHudson, 1953 - 466 стор. |
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... thousand years before Homer , seventeen centuries before the age of Pericles , over two thousand before the Christian era . The legends became real : Minos in his great palace , the minotaur in the labyrinth that Daedalus had made for ...
... thousand years before Homer , seventeen centuries before the age of Pericles , over two thousand before the Christian era . The legends became real : Minos in his great palace , the minotaur in the labyrinth that Daedalus had made for ...
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... thousand palaces , four thousand baths , four hundred theatres , and forty thousand Jews . How and when the palaces perished is not certain ; the Arabs did their share , and the walls and later city were built out of the destruction of ...
... thousand palaces , four thousand baths , four hundred theatres , and forty thousand Jews . How and when the palaces perished is not certain ; the Arabs did their share , and the walls and later city were built out of the destruction of ...
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... thousand years for rediscovery , beside the ruinous medieval hamlet of San Martì , itself built over Palaeopolis ... thousand five hundred years ago , and has been a dead city for a thousand years . Italica , created two thousand two ...
... thousand years for rediscovery , beside the ruinous medieval hamlet of San Martì , itself built over Palaeopolis ... thousand five hundred years ago , and has been a dead city for a thousand years . Italica , created two thousand two ...
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THE STUPENDOUS PAST | 40 |
GHOSTLY STREETS | 255 |
THE HAUNTING GODS 311 | 313 |
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