The singer who meh-mehed like a goat therefore was called a tragos-oidos or goat singer, and it is this strange name which developed into the modern word Tragedy, which means in the theatrical sense a piece with an unhappy ending, just as Comedy (whi...
Chapter 17 第十七章 The Greek Theater 古希腊的戏剧 The Origins of the theater, the first form of public amusement 人类第一种公共娱乐形式---戏剧的起源 At a very early stage of their history the Greeks had begun to collect the...
The same simplicity which prevailed in the dining room also dominated their choice of clothes. They liked to be clean and well groomed, to have their hair and beards neatly cut, to feel their bodies strong with the exercise and the swimming of the gy...
Within this courtyard the family lived when it did not rain or when it was not too cold. In one corner of the yard the cook (who was a slave) prepared the meal and in another corner, the teacher (who was also a slave) taught the children the alpha be...
For the Greeks, who loved moderation in all things, did not like to treat their slaves after the fashion which afterward was so common in Rome, where a slave had as few rights as an engine in a modern factory and could be thrown to the wild animals u...
The slaves did all the cooking and baking and candlestick making of the entire city. They were the tailors and the carpenters and the jewelers and the school-teachers and the bookkeepers and they tended the store and looked after the factory while th...
Chapter 16 第十六章 Greek life 古希腊人的生活 How the Greeks Lived 古希腊人是怎样生活的 But how, you will ask, did the ancient Greeks have time to look after their families and their business if they were forever running to the m...
To protect the poorer classes against abuse on the part of the judges (who were always elected from the class of the nobles because they received no salary) Solon made a provision whereby a citizen with a grievance had the right to state his case bef...
They asked a man by the name of Draco to provide them with a set of laws that would protect the poor against the aggressions of the rich. Draco set to work. Unfortunately he was a professional lawyer and very much out of touch with ordinary life. In...
His place had been taken by the nobles-a class of rich people who during the course of time had got hold of an undue share of the farms and estates. 他的位置被一群贵族占据。他们是在社会演进的过程中攫取了超额的土地与财产...
