Greek and Roman Life: An Exhibition Guide

Today’s free book is a profusely illustrated guide (264 images!) to an exhibition at the British Museum in the 1920s. This public domain title was digitised using my new overhead scanning equipment from a copy of the book from Terence C. Mitchell’s library.

British Museum, A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life with a frontispiece and Two Hundred and Sixty-Four Illustrations, 2nd edn. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1920. Hbk. pp.232. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction

1. Political Inscriptions and Slavery
2. Coins
3. Drama
4. Shipping
5. Religious and Superstition
6. Athletics
7. Gladiators and the Arena
8. Chariot-Racing and the Circus
9. Arms and Armour
10. House and Furniture
11. Dress and Toilet
12. Domestic Arts
13. Trade
14. Weights and Scales
15. Tools, Building and Sculpture
16. Horses and Chariots
17. Agriculture
18. Industrial Arts
19. Medicine and Surgery
20. Measures and Instruments
21. Infancy, Toys
22. Education, With Writing and Painting
23. Games
24. Marriage
25. Music and Dancing
26. Domestic and Pet Animals; Flowers
27. Methods of Burial

Main image: The Parthenon at Athens by timeflies1955 from Pixabay