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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
amented with a dolphin's or a lion's head, according to fancy, and which could be opened or shut at pleasure. The Emperor Julian, when at Paris, complained of the rigor of the climate and the inefficient means for mitigating it, even in the best apartments. He disliked the braziers, and it would seem that no arrangements, such as described by Seneca, and suggested by the hypocaust of the baths, was at hand. See hypocaust ; heating apparatus. Vitruvius does not mention chimneys. Winckelmann states that no traces of them are found in Herculaneum, where the people warmed themselves by fires in braziers placed on the floor of the apartment, as did Alexander the Great — according to Plutarch. In Pompeii, chimneys are seen in connection with bath-rooms and bake-houses, but none in private dwellings. Palladio only mentions two chimneys, which stood in the middle of the rooms, and consisted of columns, supporting architraves whereon were placed the pyramids or funnels through
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
belonging to Captain Henvey, and the hieroglyphics contain the name of a monarch who lived 1500 B. C. The Egyptians attained an excellence in the manufacture of counterfeit amethysts and other precious stones which has not been excelled, and Winckelmann considers their skill in all departments of vitreous art to be in advance of any succeeding age. They made glass of various colors, imitation pearls, and two films of glass were made to inclose gold plates. Glass-making in Egypt. Athena lathe to the exact shape required by the particular tint in each part of the picture; and when the picture is completed by this extremely slow process, the surface is ground down and polished. The two specimens of glass mosaic described by Winckelmann and Count Caylus, in the last century, seem to have been of a somewhat different kind, for they presented a complete picture on each surface. They consisted of colored glass fibers fitted together with the utmost exactness, and cemented by
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Greek goddesses. (search)
e must be the twin sister of Zeus, as well as his wife, that there may be a more perfect equality, and their union for the same reason must be from birth, and, were it possible, before birth. She is the only goddess who is legitimately and truly married, for Aphrodite is but the unwilling wife of Hephaistos, and bears him no children. Hence Hera wears a diadem and a bridal veil; her beauty is of a commanding type, through the large eyes and the imperious smile, as in the Ludovisi Juno. Winckelmann says it is impossible to mistake a head of Hera. Athena commands like a princess; Hera, like a queen. Her name is connected with the Aeolic e)/rrow, which signifies mastery, and it is identical with the Roman hera, or mistress. But with all this effort to make her equal in rank to her husband, it is still the equality of a queen, superior to all except her spouse, and yielding to him. The highest gods reverence Hera, but she reveres Zeus. His domestic relations, therefore, are a de