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
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