10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYMETTIC»
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Hymettic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Hymettic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
American Journal of Philology
... of the doorways shall be 15 J feet. The lintels shall be of Pentelic marble,
twelve feet long, two courses in height,* and of the same thickness as the walls.
The doorposts shall be of Pentelic or Hymettic marble, and the sills of Hymettic
marble.
Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller, Benjamin Dean Meritt, 1882
They were to be constructed of seven drums of Hymettic stone of 4 ft. each,
except the lowest, which is to be 5 ft. high. The capitals, of the style of which
nothing is said, are to be of Pentelic marble, and as tho total height of the column
is to be ...
3
The Foreign Quarterly Review
The shepherds at other parts of the Hymettus have also, most probably, beehives
; and the honey from Pentelicon is also reckoned among the Hymettic. The
number of hives on these mountains yielding honey have been averaged, of late
...
4
The Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art
... the Hymettic honey; for the exiled plant, which, according to this author, never
flourished but in the neighborhood ofthe ocean, languished for the barren rocks
of Attica and the native breezes of its " own blue sea." And the honey of the ...
John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell, 1843
5
The Quarterly Review (London)
This, we are assured by Pliny, was transplanted from the neighbourhood of
Athens into the gardens of the Roman bee-keepers, but they failed to import with
it the flavour of the Hymettic honey ; for the exiled plant, which, according to this ...
This, we are assured by Pliny, was transplanted from the neighbourhood of
Athens into the gardens of the Roman bee-keepers, but they failed to import with
it the flavour of the Hymettic honey ; for the exiled plant, which, according to this ...
7
Ancient Art and its remains; or a Manual of the Archaeology ...
The censor L. Crassus was much censured about the year 650 on account of his
house with six small columns of Hymettic marble. The first that was faced with
marble (a luxury which now crept in) belonged to Mamurra, 698; but even Cicero
...
Carl Otfried MUELLER, John LEITCH (Archæologist), Friedrich Gottlieb WELCKER, 1850
8
The honey bee [by T. James].
This, we are assured by Pliny, was transplanted from the neighbourhood of
Athens into the gardens of the Roman bee-keepers, but they failed to import with
it the HYMETTUS. 17 flavour of the Hymettic honey ; for the 16 THE HONEY-BEE.
9
The London Quarterly and Holborn Review
... other, contains not less than six-and-twenty Corinthian statues of marble, forty
feet high, and four feet in diameter, the dazzling whiteness of which stands out in
beautiful relief against the grey-blue colour of the Hymettic marble of the walls.
10
Bulletin - United States Geological Survey
"Hymettic marble," from the upper blue-gray beds of the northwest and north
slopes of Mount Hymettos, consists of cleft and twinned calcite grains up to 0.5 or
rarely 0.8 millimeter in diameter, thus smaller than in the Pentelicon marble, in a ...
Geological Survey (U.S.), 1912
