Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
1. Love
Epic Love
Comic Love
Passionate Love
Wives and Kept Women
Higher Spheres
Down to Earth
2. Status
Gods
Homer
The Great and the Good
New Men
Salt of the Earth
Status Symbols
3. Sail and Oar
For Those in Peril
Gateway to Elysium
4. Signs
Birds and Beasts
Oracles
Dreams
A Little Theory
Pseudosciences
5. The Daily Round
At Home
The Agora
Messaging
Business
Dinnertime
Bedtime
Street Crime
6. A Better World
Elysian Fields
Celibacy

Out of the Dark
Orphic Initiation
7. Warfare
Epic
Lyric: Love and War
The Heroic and the Not-So-Heroic
War Is the Father
Lady Luck
8. Dress Code
Women
Men
9. Celebration
Myth
History
Private Celebration
Notes on Ancient Authors and Sources
Glossary of Ancient Terms
Note on Metre
References
Further Reading
Photo Acknowledgements
Index