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CONTENTS Preface vii Chronology xxi Domestic Life 1 1. Growing Up in Sparta Was No Picnic 3 2. A Failure to Launch, in an Athenian Family 7 3. Even in Ancient Rome, the Dog Was Man’s—and Woman’s—Best Friend 13 4. A Prearranged Marriage 17 5. An Extremely Devoted Wife 21 Education 25 6. Plutarch’s Prescription for a Child’s Education 27 7. Socrates and Protagoras Discuss Issues in Education 31 8. Funding for Roman Schools 37 9. Spare the Rod, and Other Educational Precepts of Quintilian 41 Employment 47 10. Pay It Back! Apollodorus and His Day in Court 49 11. Workers Needed for Building the Parthenon 55 12. Cicero Advises His Son on a Right and Proper Career 61 13. The Sky Is No Longer the Limit: Diocletian’s Cap on Wages and Prices 65 Food and Clothing 69 14. Plutarch and Friends Talk Dirty (Laundry) 71 15. After a Long Day of Marching or Fighting, What Did the Homeric Heroes Eat? 75 16. Spinning Thread and Making Clothing 79 17. Controlling Appetite and Curbing Weight Gain 83 Health Care 87 18. Hippocrates and the Ethics of the Medical Profession 89 19. A Medical Miracle Man Who Declined to Give an Encore Performance 93 v