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27. What artistic objections to the use of "engaged columns" can you mention?

28. Discuss the revival of cement construction in modern times. What are its special advantages?

29. What examples of triumphal arches in the United States and France are known to you?

30. Do you know of any modern columns of victory?

31. Why is it likely that the bust of Nerva (ill.u.s.tration, page 200) is a more faithful likeness than that of Pericles (ill.u.s.tration, page 103)?

32. Write a brief essay describing an imaginary walk on the Athenian Acropolis in the Age of Pericles.

33. Enumerate the most important contributions to civilization made in cla.s.sical antiquity.

FOOTNOTES

[1] Webster, _Readings in Ancient History_, chapter xxi, "Roman Life as Seen in Pliny's Letters"; chapter xxii, "A Satirist of Roman Society."

[2] Euripides, _Iphigenia in Tauris_, 57.

[3] See page 237.

[4] In "Marcus Tullius Cicero," "Marcus," the _praenomen_, corresponds to our "given" name; "Tullius," the _nomen_, marks the clan, or _gens;_ "Cicero," the _cognomen_, indicates the family.

[5] See pages 151, 206.

[6] See page 218.

[7] See page 148.

[8] See page 144.

[9] See the ill.u.s.trations, pages 117, 271.

[10] The corresponding names of women's garments were _stola_ and _pallet_.

[11] See page 199.

[12] See the ill.u.s.tration, page 145.

[13] See page 288.

[14] See page 285.

[15] Panathenaic means 'belonging to all the Athenians.' See page 292.

[16] See page 234.

[17] See page 200.

[18] _Panem et circenses_ (Juvenal x, 80-81).

[19] See page 215.

[20] See pages 436, 463.

[21] See page 73.

[22] See page 80.

[23] See page 120.

[24] See page 265.

[25] See page 121.

[26] See page 117.

[27] See page 261.

[28] See page 226.

[29] See page 142.

[30] The so-called Corinthian order differs from the Ionic only in its capital.

[31] For ill.u.s.trations of Greek temples, see pages 89, 101.

[32] For ill.u.s.trations of Greek statues see pages 80, 81, 103, 117, 119, 129, 271 and the plates facing pages 76, 77, 80, 130, 131.

[33] See pages 61, 138.

[34] See the ill.u.s.tration, page 215.

[35] See the ill.u.s.tration, page 202.

[36] See the ill.u.s.trations, pages 157, 285.

[37] See page 263.

[38] See the ill.u.s.tration, page 236.

[39] See the ill.u.s.trations, pages 163, 201.

[40] See the ill.u.s.tration, page 266.

[41] See the ill.u.s.tration, page 339.