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Page 182
... continued into the era of blown glass . The Roman Empire . In Egypt during the Ptolemaic period ( 330-305 BC ) Alexandria came to the fore in glass- nance of making . By about the 1st century BC , which saw the Alexandria beginnings of ...
... continued into the era of blown glass . The Roman Empire . In Egypt during the Ptolemaic period ( 330-305 BC ) Alexandria came to the fore in glass- nance of making . By about the 1st century BC , which saw the Alexandria beginnings of ...
Page 183
... continued relatively undisturbed , and glassmaking evolved in an unbroken progress into Islamic times . In the northern provinces , however , glassmaking became an affair of small , often isolated , glasshouses working in the forests ...
... continued relatively undisturbed , and glassmaking evolved in an unbroken progress into Islamic times . In the northern provinces , however , glassmaking became an affair of small , often isolated , glasshouses working in the forests ...
Page 372
... continued , especially where the theatre was under the protection of tyrants , but the tragedies of this period have not been preserved . It is known , however , that they were in the same line as those of Euripides , poet of anxiety ...
... continued , especially where the theatre was under the protection of tyrants , but the tragedies of this period have not been preserved . It is known , however , that they were in the same line as those of Euripides , poet of anxiety ...
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