The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 3 (of 3)

by James Augustus St. John

W.

• Wages of mariners, iii. [317].
• Waggons, construction of, ii. [381]381.
• Wainscoting, ii. [80]80.
• Wake-robin, when sown, ii. [332]332, iii. [392].
• Walking-sticks, iii. [187].
  • Laconian, iii. [336].
• Walls of orchards, ii. [314]314.
• War, passion of the Greeks for, i. [33]33.
  • galleys, iii. [302].
  • the chief of sciences, i. [112]112.
• Warm baths, ii. [88]88.
• Washing hands, ii. [173]173.
• Water, how purified, ii. [373]373.
  • how discovered, ii. [367]367.
  • why poisonous, iii. [339, n. 1917], n. 1917.
  • indications of, ii. [369]369.
  • drinking of, ii. [134]134.
  • superior for the quenching of steel, iii. [155].
  • -caltron, bread of, iii. [108].
  • coolers for, iii. [114].
  • how cooled, ii. [373, n. 1651]n. 1651.
  • -melons, ii. [326]326.
  • -mills, iii. [105, n. 427], n. 427.
• Water mingled with wine, iii. [113].
• Watery milk, ii. [269]269.
• Wax, from Sardinia, iii. [376].
• Weaning children, i. [143]143. calves, ii. [286]286.
• Weasel, about farms, ii. [397, n. 1765]n. 1765.
• Weather, observations concerning, ii. [373]373.
• Weaving, iii. [214].
  • origin of the art, iii. [215].
• Weaving and dyeing in Laconia, iii. [337].
• Weeding, ii. [388]388.
• Weights, iii. [129].
• Wells in Attica, ii. [371]371.
• Whale-fishery at Cythera, iii. [269].
• Whales, iii. [234].
• Wheat, from Spain, iii. [379].
  • of Elatea, iii. [339].
  • from Sicily, iii. [374].
  • Bœotian, iii. [338].
• Wheelwrights, iii. [181].
• Whip, of great service at Sparta, i. [385]385.
  • used in scourging slaves, iii. [20, n. 79], n. 79.
  • from Elis, iii. [33].
• White bees, ii. [297]297.
• Wicker lanterns, ii. [121]121.
• Wife of Panteus, story of, i. [397]397.
  • on what terms she lived with her husband, ii. [31]31.
  • possessed the control of the house, i. [407]407.
• Wigs, iii. [140].
• Wild boars, from Argos, iii. [33].
  • chase of, i. [221]221.
  • ducks, how caught, ii. [277]277.
  • thyme, planted in gardens, ii. [310, n. 1298]n. 1298.
  • spikenard, iii. [344].
• Wind, signs of, ii. [380]380.
  • their effect on vines, ii. [338]338.
  • names of, 319. violent, iii. [323].
• Wine, adulterated, iii. [115].
  • Peloponnesian, iii. [331].
  • early use of, ii. [135]135.
  • varieties of, ii. [169]169.
  • how drunk, ii. [190]190.
  • watered, iii. [113].
  • drunk clandestinely by boys, i. [167]167.
  • drunk by women, ii. [36]36.
  • miraculous production of, ii. [336]336.
  • -press, ii. [352]352.
  • with what plants flavoured, ii. [118]118.
  • invention of, ii. [165]165.
  • its qualities, iii. [119].
  • price of, iii. [115].
  • sold in the agora, iii. [121].
  • of Asia Minor, iii. [354].
  • of the islands, iii. [355].
  • of Italy, iii. [370].
• Winnowing, ii. [392]392.
• Winter apartments, ii. [88]88.
• Wits’ club, ii. [189]189.
• Wives, borrowing of, at Sparta, i. [394]394.
  • how chosen, at Sparta, i. [392]392.
• Women, their thrifty habits, i. [379]379.
  • of Sparta, not courageous, i. [395]395.
  • worked handmills, iii. [105].
  • wives of the state in Sparta, i. [383]383.
  • their position among the Ionians, i. [401]401.
  • business habits of, i. [407, n. 1156]n. 1156.
  • frequented the theatre, i. [408]408, [411]411, [415]415.
  • not present at entertainments, ii. [174]174.
  • their authority, ii. [35]35.
  • their sway, i. [407]407.
  • liberty enjoyed by them in Homeric times, i. [372]372, [373]373.
  • performed religious rites, i. [403]403.
  • fought on horseback among the Sauromatæ, i. [33, n. 143]n. 143.
  • fetched water, in Heroic times, i. [380]380, [382]382.
  • in the Heroic ages, i. [369]369.
  • drank wine, ii. [136]136.
  • made bread, i. [380]380.
  • what festivals they attended, i. [404]404.
  • their position in society, i. [32]32.
  • worked before the introduction of slaves, iii. [4].
  • idea of their beauty, i. [371]371.
  • respect paid to them, i. [33]33.
  • freedom among the shepherds, ii. [412]412.
  • of Doric states, i. [382]382.
  • present at the theatre, ii. [249, n. 972]n. 972.
  • said to have danced on the stage, ii. [249, n. 968]n. 968.
  • their dress, ii. [53]53.
  • their form, i. [369]369.
  • vain and luxurious, ii. [39]39.
• Wood sold in the agora, iii. [123].
  • of Attica, i. [62]62.
• Wooden tables, ii. [100]100. bowls, ii. [115]115.
• Wool, Megarian, iii. [331].
  • Italian, iii. [374].
  • dyeing of, iii. [331].
• Work-baskets, i. [379]379.
• World, education of the, i. [289]289.
• Wormwood, wine flavoured with, iii. [119], [342].
• Wreaths, use of, ii. [304]304.
• Wreckers, iii. [323].
• Wrestling, i. [201]201.
• Writing, art of, possessed by women, i. [406]406, [407]407.
  • early understood by the Greeks, iii. [248].
  • how taught, i. [180]180.
  • [little stress] laid on at Sparta, i. [280]280.
• Written characters on fruit, ii. [324]324.

X.

• Xaintonges, wormwood from, iii. [377].
• Xanion, an ornament, ii. [61]61.
• Xenophon, his character as a writer, i. [342]342.
  • his historical character, i. [344]344.
  • his minor writings, i. [344]344.
• Ξένος, signification of, i. [34, n. 145]n. 145.
• Xysta, i. [197]197.
• Xystoi, i. [197]197.
• Xystos, i. [196]196, [197]197.

Y.

• Yew trees, of Italy, iii. [372].
• Yokes of maple-wood, ii. [381]381.
• Young men, their ambition, i. [243]243.
• Youth entrusted to the care of slaves, iii. [47].
  • their desire of knowledge, i. [234]234.

Z.

• Zacynthos, tar of, iii. [363].
• Zea, a basin of the Peiræeus, i. [74]74.
• Zephyr, iii. [321].
• Zephyros, iii. [320].
• Zetreion, or slaves’ prison, iii. [13, n. 59], n. 59.
• Zeus, the companion of the wanderer, i. [34, n. 145]n. 145.
  • statue of, i. [89]89.
  • a Pelasgian god, i. [17]17.
  • tomb of, iii. [427].
  • his priest chosen for his beauty, i. [297]297, [298]298.
  • of Pheidias, i. [305]305.
• Zoilos, coats of mail manufactured by him, iii. [162].
• Zoma, ii. [58]58.
• Zygian maple, iii. [183].

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