the gate; to the agora : athens 



The treasures deposited in the Parthenon at Athens belonged to the State and were 

 controlled and disposed of by the vote of the people. Even the personal property of the 

 goddess, the gold drapery of her statue, which was worth about $600,000, could be used in 

 case of great need ; but it had to be replaced in due time, with fair interest. 



upon the roads are common employments 

 for the Greek peasant woman. Unmar- 

 ried, her parents and her brothers control 

 her conduct, and a husband means merely 

 a change of masters for whom she toils 

 while he sits at ease. An improvement, 



however, is gradually developing. The 

 Greek, much more than some of his Bal- 

 kan neighbors, has outgrown the notion 

 that the sole occupation fit for a man is 

 warfare. Through schools, endowed and 

 under royal patronage ; through other en- 



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