. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . 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 bath; tothe hairdresser; he conversed in the ])orticoes; he frequented the gym-nasia, where he could talk or listen, where he could exercise and en
. Pottery and porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876 . 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 bath; tothe hairdresser; he conversed in the ])orticoes; he frequented the gym-nasia, where he could talk or listen, where he could exercise and enjoyhis body, where beautiful bodies and philosophic tongues found freeplay and ample room. Everything of politics, of poetry, of art, ofscandal, was a delight to the keen and active intellect of the Greek; asin St. Pauls day, he was eager to hear or see some new thing: andwhen such a ruler as Pericles had grasped the purse and the sword,and had gathered together in the small city of Athens all the sculpt-ures, all the poetry, all the elocjuence, all the ^^ictures, all the vases, to. Fig. ^i.—Etruscan Vase. adoni and glorify it, the Greek man may be said—using our expressiveAmerican phrase—to liave had a good time!—as good as he hasbeen able yet to see in the long history of the race. Knowing as much as we do of the life of the Greek man and the XAXTIPPE AXD SOCHATES. 61
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