History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . of Five Hundred (§ 198),citizens learned to carry on the daily business of the day also six thousand citizens were serving as jurors(§ 198). This service alone meant that one citizen in five wasalways engaged in duties which sharpened his wits and gave himsome training in legal and business affairs. Public festivals maintained by the State also played an im-portant i>art in the lives of all Athenians. Every spring at iheancient feast of Dionysus the greatest play-writers each submittedthree
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . of Five Hundred (§ 198),citizens learned to carry on the daily business of the day also six thousand citizens were serving as jurors(§ 198). This service alone meant that one citizen in five wasalways engaged in duties which sharpened his wits and gave himsome training in legal and business affairs. Public festivals maintained by the State also played an im-portant i>art in the lives of all Athenians. Every spring at iheancient feast of Dionysus the greatest play-writers each submittedthree tragedies and a comedy to be played in the theater for aprize given by the State. The great State feast, called thePanathenaea, occurred every four years. A brilliant processionmarched with music and rejoicing across the market place, carry-ing a beautiful new robe embroidered by the women of Athensfor the goddess Athena. Following the procession the multitudeascended the Acropolis, where the robe was delivered to thegoddess amid splendid sacrifices and impressive Fifi. 44. The Two Leading Styles of Greek Architecture, theDoric (A and B) axd the Ionic (C and D) The little Doric building (/?) is the treasury of the Athenians at Delphi(Fig. 3S), containing their offerings of gratitude to Apollo. On the low baseat the left side of the building were placed the trophies from the Battle ofMarathon. Over them on the walls are carved hymns to Apollo with musicalnotes attached, the oldest musical notation surviving. The beautiful Ionicbuilding {D) is a restoration of the temple of Victory on the AthenianAcropolis. Contrast its slender columns with the sturdier shafts of the Doricstyle, and it will be seen that the Ionic order is a more delicate and gracefulstyle. A and C show details of both styles. (After Luckenbach) 144 History of Europe III. Art and Literature 213. Painting. We can still follow the Athenian citizen andnote a few of the noble monuments that met his eye
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