COPYRIGHT
BY THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
OF ART, 1924

CONTENTS

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Illustrations[vii]
Introduction[xiii]
The Daily Life of the Greeks and Romans
I.Religion[3]
II.The Drama[13]
III.Houses and Furniture[19]
IV.Occupations of Women[32]
V.Children and Education[40]
VI.Dress and Toilet[47]
VII.Amusements, Music, and Dancing[68]
VIII.Arms and Armor[76]
IX.Athletics[89]
X.Races and Riding[98]
XI.Gladiators[106]
XII.Trades and Crafts[109]
XIII.Burial-Customs[121]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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[Cover Design]: Adaptation of wall-painting in cubiculum from Boscoreale. Eighth Room.
[Vignette on Title-page]: Departure of a warrior, from a lekythos. Case G, Fifth Room.
Introduction
Head-band: Design from a Roman table in the cubiculum. Eighth Room[xv]
Tail-piece: Oscillum. Case 1[xvii]
Chapter I
Head-band: Genii sacrificing, from an Arretine bowl. Case G, Eighth Room[3]
1.Praying youth (?)[4]
2.Man saluting a statue of Athena[5]
3.Man carrying a pig to be sacrificed[3]
4.Votive table[6]
5.Votive plaque[6]
6.Terracotta herm[7]
7.Warriors making a treaty (?)[7]
8.Charms of colored glass[7]
9.Lar[8]
10.Roman priest[9]
11.Camillus[10]
12.Statue of Cybele on its car[11]
13.Sacrificial procession[11]
14.Sistrum[12]
Chapter II
Head-band: Plan of the theatre of Segesta, Redrawn from Laloux, L’Architecture grecque, p. 233, fig. 217[13]
15.Tragic mask[14]
16.Slave in Old Comedy[14]
17.Theatre at Epidaurus[15]
18.Actor of mimes[16]
19.Actor in New Comedy[17]
20.Comic actor as Herakles[17]
Tail-piece: Terracotta mask of a Satyr. Case 1[18]
Chapter III
Head-band: House of Sallust, redrawn from Mau-Kelsey, Pompeii, published by the Macmillan Company, p. 287, fig. 136[19]
21.Roman wall-painting[20]
22.Cubiculum[21]
23.Mosaic picture[22]
24.Old man seated on a klismos[23]
25.Bronze cauldron[24]
26.Greek table-ware of painted terracotta[25]
27.Bronze patera[26]
28.Bronze wine-jug[27]
29.Bronze jug[27]
30.Bronze beaker[27]
31.Bronze ladle for wine[28]
32.Bronze wine-strainer[28]
33.Roman silver cup[29]
34.Roman silver spoons[29]
35.Bronze candelabrum[30]
36.Bronze lamp on a stand[31]
Tail-piece: Campanian plate for fish. Case Q, Sixth Room[31]
Chapter IV
Head-band: Women working wool, from an epinetron. Case 2[32]
37.Woman embroidering or making a net[32]
38.Onos or epinetron[33]
39.Woman carding wool[33]
40.Embroidered clothing[34]
41.Greek country-woman spinning[35]
42.Baking bread in a primitive oven[36]
43.Women winnowing and grinding corn[36]
44.Women at a well-house in Athens[37]
45.Marriage-vase[38]
Tail-piece: Woman spinning, from a pyxis. Case A, Fourth Room[39]
Chapter V
Head-band: Boys going to school, from a kylix. Case 3[40]
46.Gold bulla[40]
47.Old nurse holding a baby[41]
48.Terracotta feeding bottle[41]
49.Toy horse on wheels[42]
50.Tomb lekythos. Child drawing a cart[42]
51.Girls playing ball[43]
52.Boy rolling a hoop[43]
53.Women whipping tops[44]
54.Stylus[44]
55.Ephedrismos game[45]
56.Boy with a writing tablet[45]
57.Ink-pot[46]
Tail-piece: Jointed terracotta doll. Case 3[46]
Chapter VI
Head-band: Fibula. Gold Room[47]
58.Diagram of Doric chiton, reproduced from British Museum, A Guide to the Exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman Life, 2d edition, fig. 129[47]
59.Amazons in Men’s Ionic chitons, reproduced from Furtwängler und Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei, I, pl. 82[48]
60.Early chitons[49]
61.Woman’s Doric chiton of the fifth century[50]
62.Woman in Ionic chiton[51]
63.Doric chiton without girdle[52]
64.Terracotta statuette. Lady in himation and hat[53]
65.Terracotta statuette. Lady in himation[53]
66.Terracotta statuette. Man in riding-cloak and hat[53]
67.Man’s chiton[54]
68.Akropolis maiden in Ionic chiton and himation[55]
69.Greek sandal[56]
70.Greek jewelry[57]
71.Women’s coiffures, reproduced from Abrahams, Greek Dress, fig. 45[58]
72.Strigil[59]
73.Razor[60]
74.Alabastron[60]
75.Aryballos[61]
76.Glass bottle[61]
77.Silver pyxis[62]
78.Terracotta pyxis[62]
79.Spatula[63]
80.Dipping-rod[63]
81.Greek mirror on a stand[64]
82.Etruscan mirror[65]
83.Greek mirror and cover[65]
Tail-piece: Dionysos wearing the himation, from a krater. Case J, Fourth Room[67]
Chapter VII
Head-band: Symposium, from a krater. Case X, Fourth Room[68]
84.Symposium, reproduced from Furtwängler und Reichhold, I, pl. 73.[69]
85.Kottabos-stand[70]
86.Glass astragals[71]
87.Girls playing with astragals[71]
88.Youth with a lyre[72]
89.Girl dancing and playing the castanets[72]
90.Apollo with a kithara[73]
91.Terracotta figurine. Woman dancing[74]
92.Terracotta figurine. Woman dancing[75]
Tail-piece: Girl dancing, from a kylix. Case G, Fifth Room[75]
Chapter VIII
Head-band: Combat, from a kylix. Case K, Fourth Room[76]
93.Greek foot-soldier, reproduced from Die Bronzen aus Dodona, pl. 11[76]
94.Italic helmet[77]
95.Italic helmet with metal crest[77]
96.Cap-shaped helmet[77]
97.“Jockey-cap” helmet[77]
98.Corinthian helmet[77]
99.Italic armored belt[78]
100.Pair of greaves[78]
101.Italic cuirass[79]
102.Greek cuirass of the fifth century[80]
103.Warrior carrying a shield[81]
104.Persian fighting with a machaira[82]
105.Javelin-head[83]
106.Spear-head[83]
107.Dagger-blade with hooked tang[83]
108.Leaf-shaped dagger-blade[83]
109.Bronze sword[83]
110.Arrow-heads[84]
111.Amazon with battle-axe and wicker shield[85]
112.Lamp. Victory with a trophy[87]
Tail-piece: Attic helmet. Case 4[88]
Chapter IX
Head-band: Pankratiasts, from a skyphos. Case 4[89]
113.Jumper with halteres[90]
114.Diskos-thrower[91]
115.Athlete throwing a javelin[92]
116.Wrestlers[92]
117.Scene from the pankration[93]
118.Panathenaic amphora[94]
119.Youth binding on a fillet[95]
Tail-piece: Votive disk, redrawn from Jüthner, Die antiken Turngeräthe, p. 27, fig. 20[97]
Chapter X
Head-band: Horsemen, from a krater. Case X, Fourth Room[98]
120.Bronze chariot[99]
121.Racing cars on Syracusan coins[100]
122.Lamp. Scene from the circus[100]
123.Panathenaic amphora. Chariot race[100]
124.Bit used in training horses[102]
125.Horse’s muzzle[102]
126.Young horseman[103]
127.Bronze bit[104]
Tail-piece: Horseman, bronze statuette. Case B, Third Room[105]
Chapter XI
Head-band: Gladiatorial combats, from a glass cup. Case 3[106]
128.Samnite gladiator[107]
129.Thracian gladiator[107]
Tail-piece: Hoplomachus, from a terracotta lamp. Case 5[108]
Chapter XII
Head-band: Roman steelyard. Case 1[109]
130.Bronze farmyard group[110]
131.Greek farmer ploughing[111]
132.Terracotta model of a cart[112]
133.Terracotta from Cyprus. Donkey with panniers[112]
134.Donkeys carrying jars in panniers, 1922[113]
135.Key. Early type[114]
136.Lock-plate[114]
137.Key. Later type[114]
138.War-vessels. Vase painting[115]
139.Terracotta boat[115]
140.Gold-beater’s block[116]
141.Unfinished pottery cup[117]
142.Ancient mould and modern relief[117]
143.Dikast’s ticket[118]
144.Forked probe[119]
145.Spatulae[119]
Tail-piece: Terracotta goat. Case B2, Third Room[120]
Chapter XIII
Head-band: Funeral scene from a dipylon vase. Case L, Second Room[121]
146.Mourners at a bier. Terracotta relief[122]
147.Poet on his bier (?). Terracotta plate[122]
148.Dipylon vase[123]
149.Athenian tomb lekythoi[124]
150.Marble lekythos[125]
151.Etruscan focolare[126]
152.Monument of Sostrate[127]
153.Etruscan urn for ashes[128]
154.Etruscan urn[129]
155.Etruscan urn[129]
156.Roman grave monument[130]
Tail-piece: Akroterion, Sculpture Gallery, No. 5A[131]