The Greeks An Introduction to Their Culture, 3rd edition

more honoured in Homeric times, the social arrangements implicit in Homer are in essential respects thoroughly patriarchal. The ...

above, one of the questions asked concerns the support of parents, so that anyone who failed to do this was liable to have witne ...

‘I also told her that, where our property was concerned, she shouldn’t be annoyed at my giving her more jobs to do than I gave t ...

Concubines and hetairai(courtesans, companions, escorts) were not usually citizens. From early days, the Athenians had taken a p ...

I heard Aspasia composing a funeral oration about these very dead. For she had been told , as you were saying, that the Athenian ...

Women also had their own special religious festival from which men were excluded such as the Thesmophoria, taking place over sev ...

134 THE GREEKS talking of which Socrates remarks: ‘Then we have now discovered a form of rhetoric addressed to a people composed ...

instruction to the palace guards to take the sisters away indoors and where they cannot wander about (ll. 578–579). Drawing conc ...

136 THE GREEKS non-Greek from such places as Thrace and Illyria, though he was a metic and not himself a Greek citizen (IG 1^3 4 ...

My father, men of the jury, left two factories, both doing a large business. One was a sword factory, employing thirty two or th ...

The treatment of slaves was a matter of theoretical discussion by philosophers and moralists. Plato, who dispensed with them in ...

asserts to the contrary ‘no one is naturally a slave, it is a matter of tyche’ (fortune or chance). But we do not hear of abolit ...

4 LITERATURE The creation of poetry generally is due to two causes, both rooted in human nature. The instinct for imitation is i ...

of drama, was first used for occasional poems, such as short invectives and festive songs. The pattern of the iambic pentameter ...

Myfeeble pulse forgot to play, I fainted, sunk, and died away. Longinus then comments: Are you not astonished at the way in whic ...

LITERATURE 143 FIGURE 38 A Greek papyrus his imitation of the second Olympian ode, the seventeenth-century poet Abraham Cowley, ...

Theron the next honour claims; Theron to no man gives place, Is first in Pisa’s, and in virtue’s race; Theron there, and he alon ...

Once again golden-haired Love strikes me with his purple ball and summons me to play with the girl in the fancy sandals; but she ...

of Sophocles (c.496–406), together with a record of one hundred and twenty-three titles, and nineteen of Euripides (c. 485–406), ...

LITERATURE 147 FIGURE 39 The theatre of Dionysus at Athens Source:Courtesy of Richard Stoneman. FIGURE 40 The theatre at Epidaur ...