Old Hecuba young Helen.


[*]Translated in Falke's "Greece and Rome" (English translation,
p. 69). These quotations probably date from a time considerably
later than the hypothetical period of this sketch; but they are
perfectly proper to apply to conditions in 360 B.C.

But enough of such scandals! All the best opinion--masculine and
feminine--frowns on these follies. Let us think of the simple,
dignified, and esthetically noble costume of the Athenians as not
the least of their examples to another age.





Chapter VII. The Slaves.




39. Slavery an Integral Part of Greek Life.--An Athenian lady cares
for everything in her house,--for the food supplies, for the clothing,
yet probably her greatest task is to manage the heterogeneous
multitude of slaves which swarm in every wealthy or even well-to-do
mansion.[*]

[*]The Athenians never had the absurd armies of house slaves which
characterized Imperial Rome; still the numbers of their domestic