The Home Life of the Ancient Greeks
London: Cassell and Company Limited, 1893. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], viii-xv, [2], 2-548, [2] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering and gold rules on the spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece and several full-page and in-text woodcuts and drawings. Translated from the original German by Alice Zimmern. An illustrated history of Ancient Greek marriage, religious customs, athletic customs (focused on gymnastics or male gymnasia), birth and death rituals, clothing, agriculture, trade, slavery, women's lives in Greece, and their practice of slavery. A concise but wide-ranging study of Classical Greek life. Very Good. Item #00009824
A Very Good book with a few traces of wear to the extremities, particularly to the corners and spine tips; leaves show several discreet pencil annotations, and a few owner's markings to the preliminaries.
Price: $75.00