The teacher is referred to the following volumes for further assistance in re-creating the atmosphere of ancient Greece:—
Tappan's The Story of the Greek People, Old World Hero Stories, and Our European Ancestors; Hawthorne's Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Tales; Peabody's Old Creek Folk Stories; Bryant's translation of the Odyssey and of the Iliad; Palmer's translation of the Odyssey; Hopkinson's Greek Leaders; Plutarch's Alexander the Great; Marden's Greece and the Ægean Islands; Hurll's Greek Sculpture and How to Show Pictures to Children; Masterpieces of Greek Literature.
Like all the other Volumes in the "Twins Series," The Spartan Twins furnishes ample subjects for dramatization. The unique illustrations should be of assistance, and other illustrations in most of the books referred to above also will help to show scenery, costumes, furniture, and utensils.
The story will suggest many topics for class discussion, and in addition such questions as the following will help the pupils to visualize the Greece of the past:—
1. Why would ancient Greece have been a pleasant country to live in?
2. How would it affect your home town if it were shut off from all others?
3. Judging from the Greek stories, what sort of men did they regard as heroes? What sort of men do we regard as heroes to-day?
4. In the stories of gods and heroes, are there scenes that would make good pictures?
5. Imagine you are Pericles, and make a speech telling the Athenians why they ought to beautify their city.
6. What could be done to beautify the place in which you live?