Lost Worlds: A Collection of 9 Books on Extinct Cities
Archaeological, Literary, and Historical Journeys Through Pompeii, Troy, Egypt, and Ancient RuinsBy William Shakespeare, August Mau, Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, Heinrich Schliemann, R. N. Hall, Richard Caton, Gustave Flaubert, Austen Henry Layard
Length99h 12m
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Lost Worlds: A Collection of 9 Books on Extinct Cities gathers archaeology, travel writing, historical speculation, antiquarian scholarship, and imaginative literature around the enduring fascination of vanished urban civilizations. Its range extends from dramatic evocations of ruined worlds to documentary accounts of excavation, inscriptions, monuments, and contested sites. Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and Egyptian landscapes emerge alongside literary visions of antiquity, making the volume both a record of discovery and a meditation on how cities survive through memory, text, and material remains. The contributors represent influential nineteenth- and early twentieth-century currents in archaeology, Orientalist scholarship, classical reception, and historical romance. Excavators and field investigators bring the excitement, limitations, and interpretive habits of early archaeology; philologists and museum scholars supply expertise in ancient languages, artifacts, and religious cultures; while major literary voices broaden the collection's imaginative reach. Together, these distinct approaches reveal how modern knowledge of antiquity was assembled through travel, colonial-era collecting, excavation, and creative reconstruction. This volume is especially rewarding for readers seeking a comparative introduction to the cultural afterlives of extinct cities. It invites students and general readers alike to assess evidence, narrative, and imagination side by side, while tracing a rich dialogue between ruins and the writers who sought to make them speak.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length99 hrs 12 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Troy and Its Remains
26Mycenæ
2PREFACE BY THE EDITOR.
27PREFACE.
3AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF DR. HENRY SCHLIEMANN. FROM THE PREFACE TO HIS ‘ITHACA, THE PELOPONNESUS, AND TROY.’
28COMPARATIVE TABLE OF FRENCH AND ENGLISH MEASURES, EXACT AND APPROXIMATE.
4WORK AT HISSARLIK IN 1871.
29CHAPTER I.
5WORK AT HISSARLIK IN 1872.
30CHAPTER II.
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6CHAPTER VII
31CHAPTER III.
7CHAPTER VIII
32CHAPTER IV.
8CHAPTER IX
33CHAPTER V.
9CHAPTER X
34CHAPTER VI.
10CHAPTER XI
35CHAPTER VII.
11CHAPTER XII
36CHAPTER VIII.
12CHAPTER XIII
37CHAPTER IX.
13CHAPTER XIV
38CHAPTER X.
14WORK AT HISSARLIK IN 1873.
39CHAPTER XI.
15CHAPTER XVI
40Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon
16CHAPTER XVII
41PREFACE.
17CHAPTER XVIII
42CHAPTER II.
18CHAPTER XIX
43CHAPTER IV.
19CHAPTER XX
44CHAPTER VI.
20CHAPTER XXI
45CHAPTER VII.
21CHAPTER XXII
46CHAPTER IX.
22CHAPTER XXIII
47CHAPTER XI.
23APPENDIX. ON THE INSCRIPTIONS FOUND AT HISSARLIK. By The Editor.
48CHAPTER XIII.
24LIST OF INSCRIPTIONS
49CHAPTER XV.
25ERRATUM.
50CHAPTER XVII.
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