Excerpt from The Life of the Ancient Greeks With Special Reference to Athens
This book aims to present the essential facts of daily life among the Greeks, particularly the Athenians, which experience has proved a boy or a girl may profitably learn while reading Greek authors or studying Greek history in preparation for college. The conjugation of and the different forms of conditional sentences comprehend verities which must be thoroughly acquired and assimilated; but in the midst of them the pupil is apt to ask, "Who were the Greeks, after all, and how did they live?" "What did they wear, what did they eat, and what were their houses like?"
Such questions are pertinent and should be answered. I have therefore ventured to sift and reproduce in as un-technical a form as possible some of the settled knowledge about ancient life which affords useful lessons not only for the schoolboy but also for all educated persons to-day. In order to correlate the subject with the reading usually pursued in the schools, I have confined myself to a single period, the fifth and the fourth centuries, and have drawn frequently from the material which Xenophon"s Anabasis, in spite of its well-known limitations, yet offers in abundance.
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