History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . Textbookson mathematics and rhetoric circulated, and the Athenian house-keeper could even find a cookbook at the bookshop. 222. Summary of Periclean Athens. Under such influencesthere had grown up at Athens a whole community of intelligentmen. They were the product of the most active interest in thelife and government of the community. They constantly sharedin its tasks and problems, and they were also in daily contactwith the greatest works of art in literature, drama, painting,architecture, and sculpture. Ve
History of Europe, ancient and medieval: Earliest man, the Orient, Greece and Rome . Textbookson mathematics and rhetoric circulated, and the Athenian house-keeper could even find a cookbook at the bookshop. 222. Summary of Periclean Athens. Under such influencesthere had grown up at Athens a whole community of intelligentmen. They were the product of the most active interest in thelife and government of the community. They constantly sharedin its tasks and problems, and they were also in daily contactwith the greatest works of art in literature, drama, painting,architecture, and sculpture. Very different from the old Athensof the days before the repulse of the Persians, the new Athenshad thus become such a wonderful community as the ancientworld had never seen before. It now remained to be seen whetherthe people, in complete control of the State, could guide her wiselyand maintain her power. As we watch the citizens of Athens try-ing to furnish her with wise and successful guidance, we shall findanother and sadly different side of the life of this w a:H ??H ^hIBf * 4^^^^^^B ^H Hh^BI ^^t^SJ^lA^ J l^^l ^/KB/t^^^mKSM g^f/^/-^ J ^^^?^^H wr^^s eSS^ . •? ^^1 ^B ^^^^BKql, ^^KE^^a mfe/ ^^ Jjj^H l^^l l^^^BB^B^^fjjMK- ^ ^^^^^^HH B^^ .^^^^1 H^^H W^F^^^^^w ^^S^^^^ij I^M^H p P H^^^^^fe i l^^^^^fe ^^^^1 ^^^^^^mjHiEB|ii|^P m f^^^m ^H ^KS^^^m^ 1 ^P^ J| ^^^^^^^HH^Hn|^% V^gg^- Jl ^^^HniHi ^^^^^Hj^n^HB^^ ^^~ ^H ^b|pPI^^^ ?^Bl ^^^3 ? O ^^1^1 Fig. 48. Hermes playing with the Child Dionysus The uplifted right hand (now brolcen off) of the god probably held a bunch ofgrapes, with which he was amusing the child (§ 242). This wonderful workwas wrought by the sculptor Praxiteles and is one of the few original worksof the greatest Greek sculptors found in Greece. Nearly all such Greekoriginals have perished and we know them only in ancient Roman copiesfound in Italy (§ 408). This great work was dug out at Olympia Athens in the Age of Pericles 149 QUESTIONS I. Describ
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