SPARTA. The People--Laconia--The Helots--The Periœci--Condition of the
Spartiates.

EDUCATION. The children--The girls--The discipline--Laconism--Music--
The dance--Heroism of the women.

INSTITUTIONS. The kings and the council--The ephors--The army--The
hoplites--The phalanx--Gymnastics--Athletes--Rôle of the Spartiates.


CHAPTER XII

ATHENS. Origins of the Athenian people--Attica--Athens--The revolutions
in Athens--Reforms of Cleisthenes.

THE ATHENIAN PEOPLE. The slaves--The foreigners--The citizens.

THE GOVERNMENT. The assembly--The courts--The magistrates--Character of
the government--The demagogues.

PRIVATE LIFE. Children--Marriage--Women.


CHAPTER XIII

WARS. The Persian wars--Origin of these wars--Comparison of the two
adversaries--First Persian war--Second Persian war--Reasons for the
victory of the Greeks--Results of the wars.