An Inquiry Into the Ancient Greek Game, Supposed to Have Been Invented by Palamedes, Antecedent to the Siege of Troy: With Reasons for Believing the Same to Have Been Known from Remote Antiquity in China, and Progressively Improved Into the Chinese, Indian, Persian, and European Chess ; Also, Two Dissertations, I. On the Athenian Skirophoria, II. On the Mystical Meaning of the Bough and Umbrella, in the Skiran RitesT. Becket, 1801 - 169 páginas |
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afterwards alluded allusion Alveus amongst antient game Antiquities appears Aristophanes Athenæus Athenian Athens authority Bacchus Bough Brahmins Buddha Cashmir celebrated Celts central mark ceremonies Chinese Chess circumvention Clementinum conceive conjecture considered Corsini deity dice Dissertation elephant elevated Pebbles emblem expressed feast festival former game of Chess Greece Greek game Greeks Hindus Hyde observes Hyperborean implies Indian game Inferis ingenious invention inviolable Julius Pollux King Ludus Latrunculorum mandra meaning Meursius Minerva Skiras Mistletoe mound move nations Nerd northern object origin Ovid Palamedes pastoral Paullini Pausanias Pelasgic perhaps Persians Phalerus Phirdausi pieces played Plutarch Prytanëum reference religious remarks rendered represented Roman game Sacred mark Saumaise Scholiast Scythian shades sheep-fold shew shewn signified Silvanus Skiran rites Skirophoria solstice supposed temple of Minerva termed Theseus Umbrella Vishnu whilst word YULE δὲ ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ Πετεία Πλινθίον τῇ τὴν τὸ τὸν τῶν