4 Part One: Athens at sea

Section One A–J: The insurance scam

A
Hegestratos and Sdenothemis are partners in the corn-shipping
business. They have insured the load of grain on board their ship
for far more than it is worth and plan to ‘lose’ it in an ‘accident’,
thus making a healthy profit. They embark in Byzantium, with
grain, captain and crew. The ship sails to Khios (where a
rhapsode boards) and Euboia (where Dikaiopolis gets on), and
eventually comes into sight of Athens and its harbour, Peiraieus
(modern Piraeus). While Sdenothemis engages the passengers’
attention with an appreciation of the sights, a strange noise is
heard below …

In World of Athens: ships and sailing 2.4, 19; rhapsodes 3.44; grain
trade 6.65–9; loans on ships 5.59; Peiraieus 1.32, 2.23–5, 32, 5.58; the
Parthenon 1.51, 2.34, 8.92–9.

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Vocabulary for Section One A

Grammar for 1A–B

c The definite article ‘the’,
c The principle of ‘agreement’
c Adjectives like
c The vocative case

- ( ) (they) hear . . . on the one hand . ... both . . . and

- (he) goes . . on the other finally
- (he) looks the the
- ( ) (they) look Dikaiopolis the
and; but Sdenothemis Acropolis
to, into - Hegestratos ; what?
to Euboia the captain the
- onto the ship - the rhapsode the
X -o to Chios o the Parthenon
- - (he) embarks o the sailors, crew the
- - ( ) (they) embark - (he) sees - the ship, vessel
in, on - ( ) (they) see - a noise
in Byzantium o so, really, therefore
in Euboia - (it) sails Vocabulary to be learnt
in Chios towards and; but
suddenly towards then, next
then, next Athens and
( ) (it/there) is towards the land ... A and B, both A
and towards and B
... both . . . and the Peiraieus

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