Indeholder "1. A type of man and a style of life", " Classical Greek beauty", " A great range of aptitudes", " A natural life", "2. The Family", " The origins", " Celibacy in disfavor", " The reasons for marriage", " Some curious rites", " The dowry", " The nurse", " A kind of baptism", " Names in ancient Greece", " Adopted children", " The rights of the father", " Divorce", "3. Greek women", " In Athens", " In Sparta", " The courtesans", "4. The raising of children", " Infancy", " No official education", " Letters and music", " Gymnastics", " The education of girls", " Eighteen years, the Ephebes", " Spartan education", " The girls of Sparta", "5. The greek house", " Houses in ancient times", " Beautiful homes from the classical period", " Furniture", " Vases, baskets, bottles and lamps", "6. Dress and hair fashions. Care of the body. Jewelry", " Chlamys and pallium", " The chiton", " Female dress", " Ornament", " Hats and sandals", " Women's hairstyles", " Beards and male hairstyles", " The pleasures of the bath", " Beauty care", " Jewels", " Mirrors", "7. The pleasures of the table", " Meals", " The cooks", " A symposium", " Table talk", " Public meals in Sparta", "8. The pleasures of daily life", " The open-air life", " Greetings", " Circles and societies", " Games", " Cottabos", " Cock fighting", " The dance", " Music", " At the barber's shop", " Travel", "9. The land", " Cereals, wines and fruits", " Animals", " Hunting and fishing", "10. Work, Business and Money", " Changing ideas", " The hilotes", " Small landowners", " Big landowners", " The money market in ancient Greece", " At the market", " Socialist thinking", "11. Beliefs", " The birth of the gods", " A religion without a clergy", " Rites", " Prayer", "12. The Supernatural and Divination", " The prodigies", " The oracle at Delphi", " Some questions", " Clairvoyance in Boeotia", " The mysteries of Eleusis", "13. Festivals, Theater and Games", " The Panathenea", " The anthesteria", " In the theater", " Olympia", " The Olympic games", "14. Medicine", " The principles of Hippocrates", " Priests and doctors", " The miracles of Epidaurus", " Public doctors", " Private medicine", "15. Death and its rituals", " Ceremonies", " The importance of the rites", " Tombs", " Funeral dinner", " Funerals in Sparta", " Tomb worship", " The most brilliant moment in the history of man".

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