. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . s?- Fio. 50.—EtruHCLin Vane. tive, in Athens; and to it resorted the most noted statesmen, rhetori-cian?. ])hi]osopher>, wits, and artists, of tlint most remarlU city andtime. It is a misfortune to us tliat no Greek house of the time of Peri- TEE GREEK UOUSE. 59 cles, the perfect day of a most remarkable and higlily-a3stlietic civiliza-tion, remains; either its stone-wallfj, or in pictures on its on its vases. The great catastrophe which overwhelmed Ilerculaneumand Pompeii has secured to
. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . s?- Fio. 50.—EtruHCLin Vane. tive, in Athens; and to it resorted the most noted statesmen, rhetori-cian?. ])hi]osopher>, wits, and artists, of tlint most remarlU city andtime. It is a misfortune to us tliat no Greek house of the time of Peri- TEE GREEK UOUSE. 59 cles, the perfect day of a most remarkable and higlily-a3stlietic civiliza-tion, remains; either its stone-wallfj, or in pictures on its on its vases. The great catastrophe which overwhelmed Ilerculaneumand Pompeii has secured to us the means of knowing how the luxuriousRoman lived in those little seaside cities ei«:hteen hundred vears agro;a time when Caesar was hardly dead, and Jesus almost house in Athens and in Corinth, in Samos and in Melos, has. Fig. 6\.—Etruscan Vase. been swept away by the besom of war or the feathered wing of know what we do know from the verses of the poets or the allusionsof the playwrights, and that is all; but from these we gather that thehouse or home was a place rather for the woman than for the man;that in it the woman, though not exactly a prisoner us in the liarcmsof the Asiatic kings, was expected to stay and t(> find her porter sat at the door of the house, and when the woman walked 60 POTTERY AXD PORCELAIK. forth she Avent accompanied by lier slave, and it was known for whatshe went. The life of the Greek man was essentially and in liis bcr-t hoursoutside his own house. By the Greek man we now mean the upper ormore wealthy classes: all these had their work done by slaves. liewent forth in the early morning to visit the theatres, where he wasentertained with the dramas of ^Eschylus, of Euripides, of Aristopha-nes; he breakfasted; he visited the markets; he went to the bat
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