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Honors to the Memory of the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 75. The Beautiful Funeral Monuments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Chapter XII.
Trade, Manufactures, and Banking.
76. The Commercial Importance of Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 77. The Manufacturing Activities of Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 78. The Commerce of Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 79. The Adventurous Merchant Skippers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 80. Athenian Money-changers and Bankers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 81. A Large Banking Establishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 82. Drawbacks to the Banking Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 83. The Pottery of Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 84. Athenian Pottery an Expression of the Greek Sense of Beauty . . 99

Chapter XIII.
The Armed Forces of Athens.
85. Military Life at Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 86. The Organization of the Athenian Army . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 87. The Hoplites and the Light Troops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 88. The Cavalry and the Peltasts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104 89. The Panoply of the Hoplites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 90. The Weapons of a Hoplite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 91. Infantry Maneuvers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 92. The Preliminaries of a Greek Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 93. Joining the Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 94. The Climax and End of the Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 95. The Burial Truce and the Trophy after the Battle . . . . . . . 114 96. The Siege of Fortified Towns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 97. The Introduction of New Tactics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Chapter XIV.
The Peir?us and the Shipping.
98. The "Long Walls" down to the Harbor Town . . . . . . . . . . . 117 99. Munychia and the Havens of Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 100. The Glorious View from the Hill of Munychia . . . . . . . . . . 119 101. The Town of Peir?us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 102. The Merchant Shipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 103. The Three War Harbors and the Ship Houses . . . . . . . . . . . 124 104. The Great Naval Arsenal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 105. An Athenian Trierarch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 106. The Evolution of the Trireme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126 107. The Hull of a Trireme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .