CONTENTS.

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .

INTRODUCTION :

I. POLITICS AND SLAVERY .

II. Coins

III. MARRIAGE

IV. RELIGION AND SUPERSTITION

V. DRAMA .

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VI. ATHLETICS .

VII. CHARIOT-RACING AND THE CIRCUS

VIII. GLADIATORS AND THE ARENA

IX. ARMS AND ARMOUR . .

X. HOUSE AND FURNITURE

XI. DRESS AND TOILET .

XII. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES .

XIII. TOOLS AND BUILDING

XIV. DOMESTIC ARTSV . .

XV. INDUSTRIAL ARTS

XVI. MEDICINE AND SURGERY .

XVII. PAINTING

XVIII. EDUCATION, Toys AND GAMES

XIX. HORSES AND CHARIOTS

XX. AGRICULTURE.

XXI. SHIPPING

XXII. MUSIC AND DANCING

XXIII. METHODS OF BURIAL

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NOTE.--The dagger (1) indicates that the illustrations so marked are

derived from objects not in the British Museum. The scale, when specified in the text beneath the figure, is linear.

FRONTISPIECE-Harnessing of horses to a chariot.

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1. Grant of proxenia to Dionysios . 2. Grant of proxenia to Pausanias . 3. Jury-ticket . . . . 4. Inscribed potsherds (ostraka) † . 5a. Fragment of bronze diploma . 56. The same, restored .. 6. Bronze corn-ticket . . . . 7. Greek coins . . 8. Aes signatum . . 9. Aes grave. . 10. Roman coins. 11. Decking of a Greek bride. 12. Wedded pair driving to the bridegroom's home 13. Toilet-box with wedding procession . . 14. Bridegroom leading bride to hearth-altar . . 15. Roman wedding ceremony t . . . 16. Roman wedding sacrifice t. . . 17. Altar dedicated for the safe return of Septimius Severus 18. Base with dedication to Demeter and Persephone 19. Terracotta model of the internal organs . .

Sculptured locks of hair dedicated to Poseidon . 21. Bronze votive hare . . . . 22. Bronze votive axe-head . . . 23. Bronze votive bull . . 24. Bronze wheel dedicated to Kabeiros and the Child 25. Bronze bell dedicated to Kabeiros and the Child . 26. Silver plaque dedicated to Jupiter Dolichenus . 27. The Dioscuri coming to the Theoxenia 28. Aphrodite within a shrine . . . . . . 29. Terracotta model shrine .

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30. Attendant driving pig to sacrifice
31. Bronze magic hand . . .
32. Theatre at Epidauros † ;
33. Scene from a mock-tragedy .
34. Marriage-scene from a Roman comedy
35. Scene from a Roman tragedy . .
36. Ivory statuette of a tragic actor t .
37. Terracotta statuette of comic actor (Money-lender ?).
38. Terracotta statuette of comic actor (Slave ?)
39. Comic, satyric, and tragic masks

Stone jumping weight t . . .

Stone jumping weight : 42. Engraved bronze diskos. 43. Roman racing.chariot turning the post 44. Relief representing chariot-race . . 45. Relief parodying the start of a chariot-race . 46. Lamp showing chariot-race in circus. 47. Lamp showing victorious horse . . 48. Defeated gladiator appealing for mercy 49. Fight between “ Samnite" gladiators . 50. Retiarius . . . . . 51. Pompeian relief, representing combats of gladiators † . 52. Combat of women gladiators . . . . 53. Gladiator's helmet f. . . . . . . 54. Gladiator’s discharge ticket . 55. Rhodian plate, with combat of Hector and Menelaos. 56. Figure showing Italian horned helmet f . 57. Attic helmet decorated with ram's heads t . . 58. Head of Athena, showing triple crest | 59. Head of Hippolyte, with helmet in shape of Phrygian cap 60. Etruscan helmet dedicated by Hieron. 61. Italian helinet. . 62. Italian helmet from Cannae .

Archaic Greek statuette, illustrating early armour 64. Italian vase-painting, showing metal cuirass † 65. Etruscan bronze statuette with plated cuirass .

Soldier putting on his cuirass t . . . 67. Soldier wearing Italian breastplate . .

Horseman wearing Italian metal belt t . 69. Bronze statuette of Roman legionary soldier 70. Bronze greaves from Enkomi . . 71. Soldier putting on his greaves t . . 72. Bronze ankle-guard . . . 73. Bronze shoes, . 74. Roman legionary soldier from Trajan's ( 75. Trophy of barbarian arms . .

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76. Trophy borne by Victory . .
77. Roman and Dacian armour .
78. Primitive bronze spear-blades .
79. Bronze swords of the Mycenaean period .
80. Bronze swords of the late Mycenaean type .
81. Bronze spearheads of the Mycenaean period
82. Early Italian bronze swords and sheaths .
83. Italian bronze spearheads,
84. Iron swords showing the survival of Mycenaean types.
85. Vase-painting showing combat between Achilles and Memnon
86. Weapons from the battlefield of Marathon .
87. Greek iron swords . .
88. Machaira, with hilt in the shape of a bird .
89. Greek spearheads . . .

Iron spearheads from Talamone . . 91. Roman legionary sword from Mainz ..

Roman arrowheads . . . . 93. Plan of Greek house at Priene f . . 94. The above house, restored t .

House of the Vettii at Pompeii, restored † . 96. Section of Roman bronze pump from Bolsena 97. Athlete using strigil. .

: 98. Bronze strigils and oil-flask 99. Bronze food-warmer t . 100. Fish-plate 101. Bread, Fish, and Fruit † ... 102. Archaic lampstand and lamp 103. Roman bronze lampstand . 104. Roman bronze hanging-lamp . 105. Roman bronze lamp with hook . 106. Bronze lantern . . . . 107. Bronze couch (restored) † . 108. Diagram showing arrangement of Dorian chiton . 109. The Dorian chiton . 110. The Ionian chiton . 111. Bronze statuette showing early Greek dress 112. Lady of the Hellenistic Period . 113. Peleus wearing Ionian chiton t . . 114. Bronze statuette of Hephaestos . . 115. Man wearing himation

: 116. Statue of Sophokles wearing himation |

: 117. Horseman wearing chlamys † . . 118. Diagram showing shape of toga . . 119. Bronze statuette of Roman wearing tunic and toga . 120. Roman senator wearing toga praetexta f . . 121. Bronze statuette of Lar, showing Cinctus Gabinus