Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks

Abandonment, of children, 92,
93, 103
Abortion, 91– 92, 165
Achilles, 17, 175, 188, 216, 238,
239 –241, 252, 283, 303
Acropolis, 25, 27, 39, 43 – 46, 205,
207, 222, 252, 269, 270, 286,
291, 307
Actors, 88, 170, 270, 273, 275 –277,
278
Adoption, 101, 224
Adultery, 172, 224
Aeschylus, 198, 271, 274, 275, 278,
281, 300; plays, 90, 116, 212, 275,
278, 279, 295, 307
Afterlife, 186 – 93, 208, 238
Agamemnon, 17, 72, 100, 168, 188,
240, 278, 295, 297, 300, 303
Agamemnon . See Aeschylus
Agora, 40, 41– 43, 45, 61, 82, 85,
209, 231, 233, 257, 269
Agriculture, 26, 37, 112, 229 –30
Alexander the Great, 31–34, 39, 53,
59, 141, 218, 251, 311
INDEX
Alexandria, 32, 34, 40, 62, 69, 80,
111, 167, 218, 219, 266, 291
Alkibiades, 73, 82, 130, 134 –35,
147, 153, 170, 223, 264
Alphabet, 13, 53 – 59
Amulets, 137, 195
Andrôn , 130 –31, 148
Anthesteria Festival, 94, 268, 269
Aphrodite, 171, 203, 205 – 6, 209,
287– 88
Apollo, 170, 185, 206, 214, 282, 286
Apprenticeship, 159
Archaic Greece, 19
Architecture, 288 – 92, 307– 8,
309, 310
Ares, 209, 254, 300
Aristocrats, 12, 15 –16, 20 –21,
22, 66, 101, 158, 171, 226, 236,
239, 263
Aristophanes: 114, 133, 147, 155,
172, 236, 250, 271, 274, 275,
301–2; Clouds , 95, 133, 158; Frogs ,
61, 109, 186, 274, 296; Lysistrata ,
170, 213; Wasp s, 152, 225