Members The man's role The symposion The kottabos The woman's role Children and ephebes House slaves Labour & production Craftsmen Craft workshops Images of craftsmen Marriage The wedding ceremony Images of weddings Death The burial ritual Burial practices Inhumation Burial mounds & cemetery circuit walls Cremation Grave-offerings Public graves Burial rites for the dead in battle Cemeteries Siting of cemeteries Athens' citizens Athens' metics Slaves

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Metics Women's role Trade control Slave trade Workshops Employees of the Athenian Agora Employess of the Piraeus port Athenian banking Forms of loan Pasion and Phormion Role of the temples in banking Mining activity in wartime Living conditions of Laurion slaves Theoric fund Cleruchies Loss of allied income Public prestige, private profit Trierarchy Joint trierarchy Eisphora Proeisphora "Visible" and "invisible" property Evasions of financial obliagations

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The Fifty-Year Period First Athenian League Athenian Hegemony Peloponnesian War Causes, Pretexts and Consequences Later Classical Athens Second Athenian Confederacy Macedonia Athens and Philip II Two Oligarchic Reforms Democratic Principles The Assembly of Citizens Meetings Ostracism Graphe Paranomon The Council of Five Hundred Archons Nine Archons Election, Examination, Liability and Pay Ten Generals The Liturgy System The profile of democracy The Dominance of the People Freedom Equality Cimon Pericles Cleon Nicias Alcibiades

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Architecture Building programmes Acropolis Parthenon Propylaia Temple of Athena Nike Erechtheion Other temples Other buildings Town planning Terracotta Metalwork Small-scale sculpture Toreutics Jewellery and coins Sculpture Architectural sculpture The sculptures of the Parthenon Metopes The frieze The pediments Other architectural sculpture Free-standing sculpture Severe style High Classical sculpture Rich style Late Classical sculpture Portrait sculpture Grave reliefs Votive and record reliefs Painting Fifth-century Fourth-century Mosaics Ceramics Red-figure pottery Early Classical vase-painting High Classical vase-painting Rich style Late Classical vase-painting Other white-ground vases Aesthetics Plato's views on aesthetics Aristotle's views on aesthetics Historiography Logographers Minor writers Herodotus Herodotus' Histories Thucydides Thucydides' Histories Xenophon Xenophon's oeuvre Philosophy The Sophists Socrates Plato Plato's oeuvre Aristotle Aristotle's oeuvre Athenian drama Tragedy Dramatic agon The parts of Tragedy Aeschylus Sophocles Euripides Comedy Eupolis Aristophanes Rhetoric Political orators Demosthenes Isocrates Aeschines Forensic oratory Lysias Isaeus Ceremonial speeches Elementary and further education Music Festivals The Apatouria The Thesmophoria The Thesmophoria ritual The Panathenaia The Eleusinian Mysteries The Eleusinian Mysteries ritual New deities and cults A religious crisis? Lykourgos top