In Robert Garland's Daily Life of the Ancient Greeks, he provides information on the different time periods of Greek history, from the Mycenaean period through the Hellenistic period. This time lasted from 1600 BC until 31 BC Garland attempts to inform the reader about the different lifestyles of people in each time period based on their socioeconomic status. It chronicles the daily lives of children, average adults, slaves, the elderly, the poor, as well as the rich and powerful and how each class plays an important role in Greek society. Garland achieved his goal by describing various topics related to this time period such as landscapes, the alphabet and literacy, the daily lifestyles of people belonging to different social classes, and what these people did in their private lives . Garland provides many maps throughout this document to help readers better understand the geographic layout of the area during this period. For example, Garland helps the reader imagine what Athens and the surrounding cities would like by providing a visual aid to the reader in the form of a city map. (P.25) Garland sets up this information by giving the reader a geographic picture of the area he is describing. For example, when Garland describes what community life was like in Athens, he describes it as “a country town, rather than a city.” I understand this to mean a rural type of community, somewhat like my hometown of Henderson, North Carolina. Garland then goes into more detail describing the city of Athens as he creates an image (P.27) showing what would be included in what we now call the city square, such as things like a courthouse and private stores. At the beginning of the book, Garland also provides maps of t...... half of paper ...... something that the not so rich liked, it was a game similar to our game of darts. This game was called “kottabos”. In conclusion, I believe that Garland achieves what he set out to do, which is to inform readers about different aspects of the daily life of a Greek. It helps the reader get this information by providing images as visual aids and divides the chapters into different sections and subheadings. Garland also helps his readers deepen their learning by providing a small translation document of each Greek word used in this document. I believe it helped put the reader in a mindset of how communication worked during this time. I think Garland could have made some small improvements to this work, such as placing the maps in more strategic places so that the reader doesn't have to flip through them to find the place Garland was talking about.