The Home Life of the Ancient Greeks

Costumes, Stitched and Draped--The Chiton--The Himation or Chlaina--Drapery--The Uniform Male Dresses of Sparta--The Chlamys--Similarity Between Male and Female Costumes--The Di...

Origin of the Greek Drama--The Structure of the Theatre--The Theatre of Dionysus--The Theatre at Syracuse--The Auditorium--The Stage--The Orchestra--Scene-painting--Stage Access...

All the social and economic conditions of antiquity are based on the institution of slavery, and without it would have been impossible; in fact, slavery is so closely interwoven...

The Olympic Festival--The Gymnastic and Equestrian Contests--The Hippodrome--The Judges--The Preliminary Ceremonies--The Course of the Festival--Honours to the Victors--The Delp...

The boyhood of the young Athenian was occupied by school and play; his youth was spent in gymnastic exercises, and sometimes also in scientific studies and military labours. Whe...

Here, as in so many other domains of which we must treat, there is a marked distinction between the Doric and Ionic states. In the latter the education of boys was a private dut...

We have already had occasion to allude to the important part played by gymnastics in Greek life. In the Doric states it was the basis of the education of girls as well as boys,...

Scarcely any changes seem to have taken place in the character of the offensive and defensive arms of the Greeks from the most ancient period until the Roman time, though the co...

A picture of the daily life of the Greeks must of necessity be subject to various changes according to time and place. Life in the sixth century B.C. was different from that in...

At Athens, and probably throughout Greece--except, perhaps, at Sparta--the chief meal of the day was taken in the evening. This was not, however, the case in the Homeric period,...

Greek mythology tells us that in the golden age mankind lived without trouble or sorrows, equally unacquainted with vice and with cruel disease; but when fatal curiosity opened...

The domains on which the activity of the ancients was chiefly concentrated were agriculture and cattle rearing, trade, and handicraft. Intellectual or artistic labour, which at...

In a description of Greek life it is impossible entirely to pass over the many customs connected with the worship of the gods, and their importance in the life of individuals. G...

If the account of Greek life and customs given in this work does not present all sides of life in due proportion, we must lay the blame on the insufficiency of the sources whenc...

We must now transport ourselves in imagination to the house of an Athenian citizen of the better classes. He is a rich man, who not only owns a comfortable, though simple, town...

We do not intend in this place to discuss the history and theory of ancient music, but only to supplement what has been said already about the musical instruction of youth, by i...