The Founding of Washington City: With Some Considerations on the Origin of Cities and Location of National Capitals; An Address Read Before the Maryland Historical Society, May 12th, 1879
The Founding of Washington City: With Some Considerations on the Origin of Cities and Location of National Capitals; An Address Read Before the Maryland Historical Society, May 12th, 1879
Excerpt from The Founding of Washington City: With Some Considerations on the Origin of Cities and Location of National Capitals So, in Athens, the reputed founders Of the city, Cecrops and Theseus, were worshipped, and had temples erected to their memory. Tenedos, Delos, Cyrene and Miletus, all worshipped their founders as tutelary deities, and Hiero, of Syracuse, who founded the town Of Etna, received divine honors after death. Indeed, the universality Of this usage, both in Greece and Rome, is marked, and each city had ...
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Excerpt from The Founding of Washington City: With Some Considerations on the Origin of Cities and Location of National Capitals So, in Athens, the reputed founders Of the city, Cecrops and Theseus, were worshipped, and had temples erected to their memory. Tenedos, Delos, Cyrene and Miletus, all worshipped their founders as tutelary deities, and Hiero, of Syracuse, who founded the town Of Etna, received divine honors after death. Indeed, the universality Of this usage, both in Greece and Rome, is marked, and each city had its own peculiar and pro teeting gods, usually the heroes or ancestors of the people. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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