Archaeologiae Atticae libri tres. Three bookes of the Attick antiquities. Containing the description of the citties glory, government, division of the people, and townes within the Athenian territories, their religion, superstition, sacrifices, account of their yeare, as also a full relation of their judicatories / By Francis Rous.

Francis Rous

Date:: 1637

Credit: Archaeologiae Atticae libri tres. Three bookes of the Attick antiquities. Containing the description of the citties glory, government, division of the people, and townes within the Athenian territories, their religion, superstition, sacrifices, account of their yeare, as also a full relation of their judicatories / By Francis Rous. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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