Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...story the Mahabharata is interesting and consistent. As its name teils, it describes the greatest war of King Bharata, a war which was trivial both in its causes and its effects. The tale runs about as follows: King Bharata sees his end drawing near, and divides his kingdom amongst his sons and nephews. His eldest son, Udostheera, a man of spotless character, was dominated by the master passion of gambling. Udostheera lost all his property, his wealth, his lands and his kingdom, and finally he agrees to leave his kingdom and to live with his four brothers and his wife...
...been made recently, but although spurious it is up to the mark of the best parts of the work. This addition is the "horse sacrifice" and tells how Udostheera and his army followed a white horse and conquered nation after nation. Peace and prosperity then came upon Udostheera's kingdom but he is not content, and abdicates. With his wife, four brothers, and a black dog, who is justice in disguise, he goes towards a sacred mountain for meditation. On the road all his companions except the dog drop dead, and these-two-soon reached the summit. A golden chariot...
...treated by the lecturer. Very little is known of the early roadway leading up to the citadel. The changes made in the approach in the time of the Romans, the Franks and the Turks were described, as well as the modern way built after the establishment of the Greek kingdom in 1833. The lecture was closed with a historical sketch of the Propylaea in later times, and the changes which it underwent in its transformation into a fortified garrison...
...Athens (529 A. D.); 7, from the breaking up of the schools to the coming of the Franks after the Latin Crusade (1205 A. D.), 8. The Frankish period to the coming of the Turks (1456 A. D.); 9, the Turkish period to the proclamation of the present kingdom of Greece...
...topics of the first lecture are: 1. The Plain of Athens. The position and nature of the hill of the Acropolis. 2. The Acropolis in the successive historical periods of the city, from the earliest time to the establishment of the present kingdom of Greece...