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A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis
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54. An Athenian School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
55. The School Curriculum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
56. The Study of the Poets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
57. The Greeks do not study Foreign Languages . . . . . . . . . . . 70
58. The Study of "Music" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
59. The Moral Character of Greek Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
60. The Teaching of Gymnastics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
61. The Habits and Ambitions of Schoolboys . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
62. The "Ephebi" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Chapter X. The Physicians of Athens.

63. The Beginnings of Greek Medical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
64. Healing Shrines and their Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
65. An Athenian Physician's Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
66. The Physician's Oath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
67. The Skill of Greek Physicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
68. Quacks and Charlatans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Chapter XI. The Funerals.

69. An Athenian's Will . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
70. The Preliminaries of a Funeral . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
71. Lamenting the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
72. The Funeral Procession . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
73. The Funeral Pyre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
74. Honors to the Memory of the Dead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
75. The Beautiful Funeral Monuments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Chapter XII. Trade, Manufactures, and Banking.
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