All 3 Uses of
antiquity
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- In that granite book, begun by the Orient, continued by Greek and Roman antiquity, the Middle Ages wrote the last page.†
Chpt 1.5.2 *
- Thus, in order to enunciate here only summarily, a law which it would require volumes to develop: in the high Orient, the cradle of primitive times, after Hindoo architecture came Phoenician architecture, that opulent mother of Arabian architecture; in antiquity, after Egyptian architecture, of which Etruscan style and cyclopean monuments are but one variety, came Greek architecture (of which the Roman style is only a continuation), surcharged with the Carthaginian dome; in modern times, after Romanesque architecture came Gothic architecture.†
Chpt 1.5.2
- The person whom he designated by this name, took the papers into his hands again, and began to read aloud,— "To Adam Tenon, clerk of the warden of the seals of the provostship of Paris; for the silver, making, and engraving of said seals, which have been made new because the others preceding, by reason of their antiquity and their worn condition, could no longer be successfully used, twelve livres parisis.†
Chpt 2.10.5
Definition:
ancient times; or a relic of ancient times
(Typically references a period preceding the European Middle Ages which began during the 5th century AD.)
(Typically references a period preceding the European Middle Ages which began during the 5th century AD.)