Outside the sphere of scientific investigation, there is another way to draw near to nature.Modern Recognition of Scenic Beauty -- Crowning of
Petrarch Introduces Scenic Beauty
This series has four easy five minute installments. This first installment: Poet, Scholar and Mountaineer.The beauty of nature, of natural
Three Brothers, Three Tribes of Rome
There can be no doubt that a third town, which seems to have been very populous, now existed.Continuing The Foundation of Rome,our selection from
Rome and Alba
The whole description of the circumstances under which the fate of Alba was decided is just as manifestly poetical, but we shall dwell upon it for a
The Two Tribes of Rome
When, perhaps after several generations of a separate existence, the two states became united, the towns ceased to be towns, and the collective body
Of Romans and Sabines
The curia of Rome, a cottage covered with straw, was a faithful memorial of the times when Rome stood buried in the night of history, as a small
Rape of the Sabines
In the midst of the solemnities, the Sabine maidens, thirty in number, were carried off, from whom the curiæ received their names: this is the genuine
Two Brothers, Two Towns
Romulus is universally said to have wished to build on the Palatine, while Remus, according to some, preferred the Aventine; according to others, the
The Legend of Romulus
The Romans clung to the conviction that Romulus, the founder of Rome, was the son of a virgin by a god, that his life was marvelously preserved, that