Pierre Gilles
The Antiquities of Constantinople
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066232856
Table of Contents
THE ANTIQUITIES OF Constantinople . BOOK I.
Chap. I. Of the Founders of Byzantium, and the different Successes and Revolutions of that City .
Chap. II. Of the Extent of Old Byzantium.
Chap. IV. Of the present Figure, Compass, Length and Breadth of Constantinople.
Chap. V. A general Description of Constantinople.
Chap. VI. Of the Situation of all the Parts of the City describ’d.
Chap. VIII. Of the first Valley.
Chap. X. Of the second Valley, which divides the second from the third Hill.
Chap. XII. Of the third Valley.
Chap. XIII. Of the fourth Hill.
Chap. XV. Of the Fifth Valley.
Chap. XVII. Of the Valley which divides the Promontory from the seventh Hill .
Chap. XVIII. Of the seventh Hill.
Chap. XIX. Of the Walls of the City.
Chap. XX. Of the Gates of Constantinople, and the seven Towers of Old Byzantium.
THE ANTIQUITIES OF Constantinople . BOOK II.
Chap. I. Of the Buildings and Monuments of Old Byzantium and Constantinople, called New Rome.
Chap. II. Of the Ancient Monuments of the first Hill, and of the first Ward of the City .
Chap. III. Of the Church of St. Sophia.
Chap. IV. A Description of the Church of St. Sophia, as it now appears .
Chap. V. Of the Statues discover’d on one Side of the Church of St. Sophia.
Chap. VI. Of the Pharo on the Promontory Ceras, and the Mangana.
Chap. VII. Of the Bagnio’s of Zeuxippus and its Statues .
Chap. VIII. Of the Hospitals of Sampson and Eubulus.
Chap. IX. Of the Statue of Eudoxia Augusta, for which St. Chrysostom was sent into Banishment .
Chap. X. Of those Parts of the City which are contain’d in the third Ward.
Chap. XI. Of the Hippodrom, its Obelisk, its Statues, and Columns.
Chap. XIII. Of some other Columns in the Hippodrom.
Chap. XIV. Of the Church of Bacchus, the Court of Hormisda, and the House of Justinian.
Chap. XV. Of the Port of Julian, and Sophia; of the Portico nam’d Sigma, and the Palace of Sophia.
Chap. XVI. Of the Fourth Ward.