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LORD'S LECTURES






BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY.

BY JOHN LORD, LL.D.

AUTHOR OF "THE OLD ROMAN WORLD," "MODERN EUROPE,"ETC., ETC.



VOLUME III.

ANCIENT ACHIEVEMENTS.






CONTENTS.


GOVERNMENTS AND LAWS.

GREEK AND ROMAN JURISPRUDENCE.

Governments and laws


Oriental laws


Priestly jurisprudence


The laws of Lycurgus


The laws of Solon


Cleisthenes


The Ecclesia at Athens


Struggle between patricians and plebeians at Rome


Tribunes of the people


Roman citizens


The Roman senate


The Roman constitution


Imperial power


The Twelve Tables


Roman lawyers


Jurisprudence under emperors


Labeo


Capito


Gaius


Paulus


Ulpian


Justinian


Tribonian


Code, Pandects, and Institutes


Roman citizenship


Laws pertaining to marriage


Extent of paternal power


Transfer of property


Contracts


The courts


Crimes


Fines


Penal statutes


Personal rights


Slavery


Security of property


Authorities



THE FINE ARTS.

ARCHITECTURE, SCULPTURE, PAINTING.

Early architecture


Egyptian monuments


The Temple of Karnak


The pyramids


Babylonian architecture


Indian architecture


Greek architecture


The Doric order


The Parthenon


The Ionic order


The Corinthian order


Roman architecture


The arch


Vitruvius


Greek sculpture


Phidias


Statue of Zeus


Praxiteles


Scopas


Lysippus


Roman sculpture


Greek painters


Polygnotus


Apollodorus


Zeuxis


Parrhasius


Apelles


The decline of art


Authorities



ANCIENT SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE.

ASTRONOMY, GEOGRAPHY, ETC.

Ancient astronomy


Chaldaean astronomers


Egyptian astronomy


The Greek astronomers


Thales


Anaximenes


Aristarchus


Archimedes


Hipparchus


Ptolemy


The Roman astronomers


Geometry


Euclid


Empirical science


Hippocrates


Galen

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