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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Sketch Map of Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4. Peasant going to Market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 5. At the Street Fountain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 6. A Wayside Herm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 7. A Carpenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 8. Conjectural Plan for the house of a Wealthy Athenian . . . . . . 29 9. Spinning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 10. The Maternal Slipper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 11. Athenian Funeral Monument . . . . . . . . . . . . . FACING PAGE 88 12. At the Smithy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 13. Hoplite in Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106 14. The Town of Peir?us and the Harbors of Athens . . . . . . . . . 118 15. Fishermen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 16. An Athenian Trireme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 17. The Race in Armor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 18. Itinerant Piper with his Dog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 19. Women pounding Meal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 20. Gathering the Olive Harvest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 21. Rural Sacrifice to a Wooden Statue of Dionysus . . . . . . . . . 202 22. Sketch Map of the Acropolis of Athens . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 23. Sacrificing a Pig . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 24. Athena Parthenos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 25. Comic Actors dressed as Ostriches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 26. Actor in Costume as a Fury . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

A Day in Old Athens

Chapter I.
The Physical Setting of Athens.

1. The Importance of Athens in Greek History.--To three ancient nations the men of the twentieth century owe an incalculable debt. To the Jews we owe most of our notions of religion; to the Romans we owe traditions and examples in law, administration, and the general management of human affairs which still keep their influence and value; and finally, to the Greeks we owe nearly all our ideas as to the fundamentals of art, literature, and philosophy, in fact, of almost the whole of our intellectual life. These Greeks, however, our histories promptly teach us, did not form a single unified nation. They lived in many "city-states" of more or less importance, and some of the largest of these contributed very little directly to our civilization. Sparta, for example, has left us some noble lessons in simple living and devoted patriotism, but hardly a single great