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A HISTORY OF ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE
EDITOR'S GENERAL INTRODUCTION
A HISTORY OF ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE
PREFACE
CONTENTS
THE LITERATURE OF ANCIENT GREECE
I
HOMER
INTRODUCTORY
THE LEGENDARY POETS
THE HOMERIC POEMS
ILIAD AND ODYSSEY: THE PANATHENAIC RECITATION
THE EPIC LANGUAGE
THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF HOMER
CRITERIA OF AGE
II
LESSER HOMERIC POEMS; HESIOD; ORPHEUS
THE REJECTED EPICS
HYMNS OR PRELUDES
COMIC POEMS
HESIOD
ORPHEUS -- REVELATION AND MYSTICISM
III
THE DESCENDANTS OF HOMER, HESIOD, ORPHEUS
EPOS
ELEGY AND IAMBUS
IV
THE SONG
THE PERSONAL SONG -- SAPPHO, ALCÆUS, ANACREON
THE CHOIR-SONG -- GENERAL
THE EARLY MASTERS
ALCMAN
ARÎON
STÊSICHORUS
THE MIDDLE PERIOD
ÎBYCUS
SIMÔNIDES
TIMOCREON
BACCHYLIDES
THE FINAL DEVELOPMENT
PINDAR
V
THE BEGINNINGS OF PROSE
INSCRIPTIONS
'STORY'
CHRONICLES
'HISTORÊ'
HECATÆUS
HÊRODÔRUS
THE EARLY 'HISTORIKOI'
HELLANîCUS
VI
HERODOTUS HERODOTUS, SON OF LYXES OF HALICARNASSUS (484 (?)-425 (?) B.C.)
VII
PHILOSOPHIC AND POLITICAL LITERATURE TO THE DEATH OF SOCRATES
EARLY PHILOSOPHY
THE ATHENIAN PERIOD OF PHILOSOPHY
OCCASIONAL WRITINGS
SOCRATES, SON OF SOPHRONISCUS FROM ALÔPEKÊ (468-399 B.C.)
VIII
THUCYDIDES
IX
THE DRAMA
INTRODUCTION
PHRYNICHUS, SON OF POLYPHRADMON (fl. 494 B.C.)
X
ÆSCHYLUS
ÆSCHYLUS, SON OF EUPHORION, FROM ELEUSIS
XI
SOPHOCLES
SOPHOCLES, SON OF SOPHILLOS, FROM COLONUS (496-406 B.C.)
XII
EURIPIDESM
EURIPIDES, SON OF MNESARCHIDES OR MNESARCHUSY, FROM PHLYA (ca. 480-406 B.C.)
XIII
COMEDY
BEFORE ARISTOPHANES
ARISTOPHANES, SON OF PHILIPPUS, FROM KYDATHENAION (ca. 45 B.C. to ca. 385 B.C.)
XIV
PLATO
PLATO, SON OF ARISTON, FROM KOLLŶTUS (427-347 B.C.)
XV
XENOPHON
XENOPHON, SON OF GRYLLUS, FROM ERCHIA ( 434-354 B.C.)
XVI
THE 'ORATORS'
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
LIVES OF THE ORATORS
Up to Isocrates
ISOCRATES, SON OF THEODÒRUS FROM ERCHIA (436-338 B.C.).
XVII
DEMOSTHENES AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
DEMOSTHENES, SON OF DEMOSTHENES, FROM PAIANIA (383-322 B.C.)
XVIII
THE LATER LITERATURE, ALEXANDRIAN AND ROMAN
I
FROM THE DEATH OF DEMOSTHENES TO THE BATTLE OF ACTIUM
II
THE ROMAN AND BYZANTINE PERIODS
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
I. -- BEFORE THE SEVENTH CENTURY ALL THE DATES ARE MERELY LEGENDARY, AND THE POETS MAINLY FABULOUS.
II. -- BEFORE MARATHON.
III. -- THE ATTIC PERIOD.
INDEX
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