Schools of Hellas / An Essay on the Practice and Theory of Ancient Greek Education from 600 to 300 B. C.

by Kenneth J. Freeman

[215] Dem. de Cor. 315.

[216] Theoph. Char. 30.

[217] Ibid. 30.

[218] Herondas, iii. 3.

[219] Demos. ag. Aphobos, i. 828.

[220] Demos. Crown, 312.

[221] Demos. Crown, 270. This is the most probable restoration of the facts from the statements of the opposing orators.

[222] Ibid. 313.

[223] Aelian, Var. Hist. xii. 9 (at Klazomenai).

[224] Benches do not appear on vases, because a row of boys involves elaborate perspective; the artist preferred to take single boys on stools, as a sort of section of a class, just as he gave the stools only two legs. Xen. Banquet, 4. 27, shows two boys sitting side by side. It is not necessary to reject benches, with Girard.