• Preface


• CHAPTER 1 Food and Drink


• CHAPTER 2 Children and Education


• CHAPTER 3 Women


• CHAPTER 4 Sex


• CHAPTER 5 Animals


• CHAPTER 6 Athens


• CHAPTER 7 Sparta


• CHAPTER 8 Alexander the Great


• CHAPTER 9 Greeks at Sea


• CHAPTER 10 Greeks and Barbarians


• CHAPTER 11 Athletics


• CHAPTER 12 Homer


• CHAPTER 13 Drama


• CHAPTER 14 Spectators and Critics


• CHAPTER 15 Books and Papyri


• CHAPTER 16 Philosophers


• CHAPTER 17 Mathematics


• CHAPTER 18 Science and Technology


• CHAPTER 19 Art


• CHAPTER 20 Tourists and Tourist Attractions


• CHAPTER 21 Religion, Superstition, and Magic


• CHAPTER 22 Prophecy


• CHAPTER 23 Words and Expressions


• CHAPTER 24 The Soros


• Glossary


• The Coin Images


• Illustration Credits

J. C. McKeown is Professor of Classics at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Like its whimsical predecessor, A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities collects an assortment of peculiar facts and amusing anecdotes from the culture of Ancient Greece.