blunder of finding him guilty and condemning him to death. According
to the Athenian custom he was obliged to drink a cup of poisonous
hemlock. This he did, after talking to his friends cheerily about how
a good man should live. As he wrote no books we have learned about him
from his friends. The most famous of these was Plato, who is also
counted among the wisest men that ever lived. The story of the lives
of these men is another gift which the Greeks made to all who were to
live after them, and it is quite as valuable as are the ways of
building, artistic skill, or great poems and plays.


QUESTIONS

1. Why do we wish to know how the Greeks lived?

2. What was an Acropolis? How does the Acropolis at Athens look?

3. On the picture of the Parthenon point out the pediment. Show
where the frieze was placed. Find on a map Paestum.

4. What did the Greeks first mean by a _scene_? Why do we still
study Greek plays? What is left of the Greek theaters?

5. What was a stadium, a portico, a gymnasium? Do we have such
buildings?

6. How do we know that the Greeks made beautiful statues?

7. What games for Greek boys were like our games? Tell about the
great public games of the Greeks.