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The daily life of the Greeks and Romans as illustrated in the classical collections

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS
By Helen McClees
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The book reconstructs everyday Greek and Roman life through close study of classical artifacts, using objects to illuminate practices and institutions. It is organized into thematic chapters that survey religion, theatre, houses and furnishings, women's occupations, childhood and education, dress and toilet, and entertainments such as music and dance. Chapters also examine arms and armor, athletics, racing and gladiatorial spectacles, trades and crafts, and burial customs, relating material forms to social roles and rituals. Numerous illustrations and museum pieces are described to explain functions, techniques, and cultural contexts, enabling readers to visualize practical details of domestic, civic, and ceremonial life.

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
Cover Design: Adaptation of wall-painting in cubiculum from Boscoreale. Eighth Room.
Vignette on Title-page: Departure of a warrior, from a lekythos. Case G, Fifth Room.
Introduction
Head-band: Design from a Roman table in the cubiculum. Eighth Room xv
Tail-piece: Oscillum. Case 1 xvii
Chapter I
Head-band: Genii sacrificing, from an Arretine bowl. Case G, Eighth Room 3
1. Praying youth (?) 4
2. Man saluting a statue of Athena 5
3. Man carrying a pig to be sacrificed 3
4. Votive table 6
5. Votive plaque 6
6. Terracotta herm 7
7. Warriors making a treaty (?) 7
8. Charms of colored glass 7
9. Lar 8
10. Roman priest 9
11. Camillus 10
12. Statue of Cybele on its car 11
13. Sacrificial procession 11
14. Sistrum 12
Chapter II
Head-band: Plan of the theatre of Segesta, Redrawn from Laloux, L’Architecture grecque, p. 233, fig. 217 13
15. Tragic mask 14
16. Slave in Old Comedy 14
17. Theatre at Epidaurus 15
18. Actor of mimes 16
19. Actor in New Comedy 17
20. Comic actor as Herakles 17
Tail-piece: Terracotta mask of a Satyr. Case 1 18
Chapter III
Head-band: House of Sallust, redrawn from Mau-Kelsey, Pompeii, published by the Macmillan Company, p. 287, fig. 136 19
21. Roman wall-painting 20
22. Cubiculum 21
23. Mosaic picture 22
24. Old man seated on a klismos 23
25. Bronze cauldron 24
26. Greek table-ware of painted terracotta 25
27. Bronze patera 26
28. Bronze wine-jug 27
29. Bronze jug 27
30. Bronze beaker 27
31. Bronze ladle for wine 28
32. Bronze wine-strainer 28
33. Roman silver cup 29
34. Roman silver spoons 29
35. Bronze candelabrum 30
36. Bronze lamp on a stand 31
Tail-piece: Campanian plate for fish. Case Q, Sixth Room 31
Chapter IV
Head-band: Women working wool, from an epinetron. Case 2 32
37. Woman embroidering or making a net 32
38. Onos or epinetron 33
39. Woman carding wool 33
40. Embroidered clothing 34
41. Greek country-woman spinning 35
42. Baking bread in a primitive oven 36
43. Women winnowing and grinding corn 36
44. Women at a well-house in Athens 37
45. Marriage-vase 38
Tail-piece: Woman spinning, from a pyxis. Case A, Fourth Room 39
Chapter V
Head-band: Boys going to school, from a kylix. Case 3 40
46. Gold bulla 40
47. Old nurse holding a baby 41
48. Terracotta feeding bottle 41
49. Toy horse on wheels 42
50. Tomb lekythos. Child drawing a cart 42
51. Girls playing ball 43
52. Boy rolling a hoop 43
53. Women whipping tops 44
54. Stylus 44
55. Ephedrismos game 45
56. Boy with a writing tablet 45
57. Ink-pot 46
Tail-piece: Jointed terracotta doll. Case 3 46
Chapter VI
Head-band: Fibula. Gold Room 47
58. Diagram of Doric chiton, reproduced from British Museum, A Guide to the Exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman Life, 2d edition, fig. 129 47
59. Amazons in Men’s Ionic chitons, reproduced from Furtwängler und Reichhold, Griechische Vasenmalerei, I, pl. 82 48
60. Early chitons 49
61. Woman’s Doric chiton of the fifth century 50
62. Woman in Ionic chiton 51
63. Doric chiton without girdle 52
64. Terracotta statuette. Lady in himation and hat 53
65. Terracotta statuette. Lady in himation 53
66. Terracotta statuette. Man in riding-cloak and hat 53
67. Man’s chiton 54
68. Akropolis maiden in Ionic chiton and himation 55
69. Greek sandal 56
70. Greek jewelry 57
71. Women’s coiffures, reproduced from Abrahams, Greek Dress, fig. 45 58
72. Strigil 59
73. Razor 60
74. Alabastron 60
75. Aryballos 61
76. Glass bottle 61
77. Silver pyxis 62
78. Terracotta pyxis 62
79. Spatula 63
80. Dipping-rod 63
81. Greek mirror on a stand 64
82. Etruscan mirror 65
83. Greek mirror and cover 65
Tail-piece: Dionysos wearing the himation, from a krater. Case J, Fourth Room 67
Chapter VII
Head-band: Symposium, from a krater. Case X, Fourth Room 68
84. Symposium, reproduced from Furtwängler und Reichhold, I, pl. 73. 69
85. Kottabos-stand 70
86. Glass astragals 71
87. Girls playing with astragals 71
88. Youth with a lyre 72
89. Girl dancing and playing the castanets 72
90. Apollo with a kithara 73
91. Terracotta figurine. Woman dancing 74
92. Terracotta figurine. Woman dancing 75
Tail-piece: Girl dancing, from a kylix. Case G, Fifth Room 75
Chapter VIII
Head-band: Combat, from a kylix. Case K, Fourth Room 76
93. Greek foot-soldier, reproduced from Die Bronzen aus Dodona, pl. 11 76
94. Italic helmet 77
95. Italic helmet with metal crest 77
96. Cap-shaped helmet 77
97. “Jockey-cap” helmet 77
98. Corinthian helmet 77
99. Italic armored belt 78
100. Pair of greaves 78
101. Italic cuirass 79
102. Greek cuirass of the fifth century 80
103. Warrior carrying a shield 81
104. Persian fighting with a machaira 82
105. Javelin-head 83
106. Spear-head 83
107. Dagger-blade with hooked tang 83
108. Leaf-shaped dagger-blade 83
109. Bronze sword 83
110. Arrow-heads 84
111. Amazon with battle-axe and wicker shield 85
112. Lamp. Victory with a trophy 87
Tail-piece: Attic helmet. Case 4 88
Chapter IX
Head-band: Pankratiasts, from a skyphos. Case 4 89
113. Jumper with halteres 90
114. Diskos-thrower 91
115. Athlete throwing a javelin 92
116. Wrestlers 92
117. Scene from the pankration 93
118. Panathenaic amphora 94
119. Youth binding on a fillet 95
Tail-piece: Votive disk, redrawn from Jüthner, Die antiken Turngeräthe, p. 27, fig. 20 97
Chapter X
Head-band: Horsemen, from a krater. Case X, Fourth Room 98
120. Bronze chariot 99
121. Racing cars on Syracusan coins 100
122. Lamp. Scene from the circus 100
123. Panathenaic amphora. Chariot race 100
124. Bit used in training horses 102
125. Horse’s muzzle 102
126. Young horseman 103
127. Bronze bit 104
Tail-piece: Horseman, bronze statuette. Case B, Third Room 105
Chapter XI
Head-band: Gladiatorial combats, from a glass cup. Case 3 106
128. Samnite gladiator 107
129. Thracian gladiator 107
Tail-piece: Hoplomachus, from a terracotta lamp. Case 5 108
Chapter XII
Head-band: Roman steelyard. Case 1 109
130. Bronze farmyard group 110
131. Greek farmer ploughing 111
132. Terracotta model of a cart 112
133. Terracotta from Cyprus. Donkey with panniers 112
134. Donkeys carrying jars in panniers, 1922 113
135. Key. Early type 114
136. Lock-plate 114
137. Key. Later type 114
138. War-vessels. Vase painting 115
139. Terracotta boat 115
140. Gold-beater’s block 116
141. Unfinished pottery cup 117
142. Ancient mould and modern relief 117
143. Dikast’s ticket 118
144. Forked probe 119
145. Spatulae 119
Tail-piece: Terracotta goat. Case B2, Third Room 120
Chapter XIII
Head-band: Funeral scene from a dipylon vase. Case L, Second Room 121
146. Mourners at a bier. Terracotta relief 122
147. Poet on his bier (?). Terracotta plate 122
148. Dipylon vase 123
149. Athenian tomb lekythoi 124
150. Marble lekythos 125
151. Etruscan focolare 126
152. Monument of Sostrate 127
153. Etruscan urn for ashes 128
154. Etruscan urn 129
155. Etruscan urn 129
156. Roman grave monument 130
Tail-piece: Akroterion, Sculpture Gallery, No. 5A 131