The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece (Vol. 1-3) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Tradition and Social Life in AntiqueBy James Augustus St. John
Length53h
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James Augustus St. John's The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece is an expansive three-volume work of nineteenth-century classical scholarship devoted not to battles and constitutions, but to the lived texture of Greek civilization. It surveys domestic life, education, religion, festivals, food, dress, marriage, labor, social ranks, and public amusements, drawing copiously on ancient literary testimony. Its style is learned, discursive, and richly antiquarian, characteristic of Victorian attempts to reconstruct antiquity as a moral and cultural world rather than a mere chronology of events. St. John, a British journalist, traveller, and prolific man of letters, brought to the work the habits of wide reading and comparative observation formed through his historical and travel writing. His interest in societies, customs, and everyday institutions—visible in his broader writings on the Mediterranean and the East—helped shape this ambitious reconstruction of Greek life. Though modern scholarship has revised many details, his erudition and curiosity remain evident throughout. This work is recommended to readers interested in classical reception, social history, and the Victorian imagination of antiquity. It offers both a substantial compendium of Greek customs and a revealing example of how nineteenth-century scholars sought to make the ancient world intellectually and morally intelligible.
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GenreHistory
Length53 hrs
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Home Life of the Ancient Greeks
2Volume 1
3Dedication.
4Introduction.
5Book I.
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6Chapter I. Original Inhabitants of Hellas.
7Chapter II. Character of the Greeks.
8Chapter III. Geographical Outline.
9Chapter IV. Capital Cities of Greece.—Athens.
10Chapter V. Capital Cities of Greece.—Sparta.
11Book II. Education.
12Chapter I. Theory of Education.—Birth of Children.—Infanticide.
13Chapter II. Birth-feast—Naming the Child.—Nursery—Nursery Tales—Spartan Festival.
14Chapter III. Toys, Sports, and Pastimes.
15Chapter IV. Elementary Instruction.
16Chapter V. Exercises of Youth.
17Chapter VI. Hunting and Fowling.
18Chapter VII. Schools of the Philosophers and Sophists.
19Chapter VIII. Education of the Spartans, Cretans, Arcadians, Etc.
20Chapter IX. Influence of the Fine Arts on Education.
21Chapter X. Hellenic Literature.
22Chapter XI. Spirit of the Grecian Religion.
23Book III. Women.
24Chapter I. Women in the Heroic Ages.
25Chapter II. Women of Doric States.
26Chapter III. Condition of Unmarried Women.—Love.
27Volume 2
28Book III.
29Chapter IV. Marriage Ceremonies.
30Chapter V. Condition of Married Women.
31Chapter VI. Toilette, Dress, and Ornaments.
32Book IV.
33Chapter I. Private Dwellings.
34Chapter II. Household Furniture.
35Chapter III. Food of Homeric Times—Meat, Fish, Etc.
36Chapter IV. Poultry, Fruit, Wine, Etc.
37Chapter V. Entertainments.
38Chapter VI. Entertainments.
39Chapter VII. The Theatre.
40Chapter VIII. Theatre (continued).
41Book V. Rural Life.
42Chapter I. The Villa and the Farmyard.
43Chapter II. Garden and Orchard.
44Chapter III. Vineyard, Vintage, Etc.
45Chapter IV. Studies of the Farmer.
46Chapter V. The Various Processes of Agriculture.
47Chapter VI. Pastoral Life.
48Volume 3
49Book V.
50Chapter VII. Slaves.
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