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Quote: Author: Georges Perrot

Release: 2009

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Format: PDF 540 pages

ISBN: 1440038562 (1-4400-3856-2)

ISBN 13: 9781440038563 (978-1-4400-3856-3)

List Price: $12.48

Description

The successful interpretation of the ancient writings of Egypt, Chaldaea, and Persia, which has distinguished our times, makes it necessary that the history of antiquity should be rewritten. Documents that for thousands of years lay hidden beneath the soil, and inscriptions which, like those of Egypt and Persia, long offered themselves to the gaze of man merely to excite his impotent curiosity, have now been deciphered and made to render up their secrets for the guidance of the historian. By the help of those strings of hieroglyphs and of cuneiform characters, illustrated by paintings and sculptured reliefs, we are enabled to separate the truth from the falsehood, the chaff from the wheat, in the narratives of the Greek writers who busied themselves with those nations of Africa and Asia which preceded their own in the ways of civilization. Day by day, as new monuments have been discovered and more certain methods of reading their inscriptions elaborated, we have added to the knowledge

Table of Contents INTRODUCTION i-lxi; TO THE READER Ixiii-lxiv;

CHAPTER I; THE GENERAL CHARACTER OF EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION;

§ i Egypt's place in the History of the World i-2;

§ 2 The Valley of the Nile and its Inhabitants 2-16;

§ 3 The Great Divisions of Egyptian History 16-21;

§ 4 The Constitution of Egyptian Society-Influence of that Constitution upon Monuments of Art 21-44;

§ 5 The Egyptian Religion and its Influence upon the Plastic Arts 44-69

§ 6 That Egyptian Art did not escape the Law of Change, and that; its History may therefore be written 70-89;

§ 7 Of the place held in this work by the Monuments of the Memphite; Period, and of the Limits of our Inquiry 89-93;

CHAPTER II; PRINCIPLES AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE;

§ i Method to be Employed by us in our Study of this Architecture 94-96;

§ 2 General Principles of Form 96-ro2;

§ 3 General Principles of Construction-Materials 103-106;

§ 4 Dressed Cons FileSize 18.93 Mb

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