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Notes


[1] Wrongly called the "Theseum" in modern Athens.

[2] This would be a properly respectable quarter of the city, but we do not know of any really "aristocratic residence district" in Athens.

[3] In Xenophon's "Memorabilia," III. 8, §§ 9,10.

[4] Xenophon, "Economics," VII. 3.

[5] Very probably in such outlying Greek cities as Syracuse, Taras (Tarentum), etc., more elegant houses could be found than any at this time in Athens.

[6] Who corresponds to the Roman goddess Vesta.

[7] Such a luxury would not be common in city houses; land would be too valuable.

[8] Houses of more than two stories seem to have been unknown in Athens. The city lacked the towering rookeries of tenements (insulæ) which were characteristic of Rome; sometimes, however, a house seems to have been shared between several families.

[9] This material was so friable and poor that the Greek burglar was known as a "Wall-digger." It did not pay him to pick a lock; it was simpler for him to quarry his way through the wall with a pickax.

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