History of Greek Culture by Burckhardt, Jacob -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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DOVER BOOKS ON HISTORY, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Title Page Copyright Page ABOUT JACOB BURCKHARDT Table of Contents PART I - STATE AND NATION

Chapter One - THE POLIS Chapter Two - THE POLIS IN ITS HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT

1. Kingship 2. Sparta 3. Subservient People in Other Poleis 4. Slavery 5. The Greek Aristocracy 6. The Tyranny 7. Democracy and Its Development in Athens 8. Democracy Outside Athens 9. The Enduring Quality of City Populations

Chapter Three - OBJECTIVE CONSIDERATION OF THE FORMS OF THE STATE Chapter Four - THE UNITY OF THE GREEK NATION

1. Internecine Warfare and the Forces of National Unification 2. Greeks and Barbarians 3. Hellenic Pathos

PART II - THE FINE ARTS

Chapter Five - THE AWAKENING OF ART Chapter Six - THE GENRES OF ART

1. Sculpture 2. Painting 3. Architecture

Chapter Seven - PHILOSOPHERS, POLITICIANS, AND ART

PART III - POESY AND MUSIC

Chapter Eight - THE PRIMEVAL AGE Chapter Nine - POESY IN HEXAMETER

1. The Homeric Epos 2. Homer and the Greeks 3. The Homeric Hymns 4. Cyclic Poets, Rhapsodes, and Later Epic Poets 5. Narrative Poetry of Alexandria 6. Bucolic Poetry—the Late Epic 7. Didactic Poesy (Hesiod)

Chapter Ten - MUSIC Chapter Eleven - POESY IN OTHER THAN HEXAMETER MEASURES

1. General Remarks 2. The Elegy 3. The Epigram 4. The Iambus 5. Comment on Lyric; the Aeolic Lyric 6. The Choral Lyric 7. Tragedy 8. The Old Comedy 9. The Middle Comedy 10. The New Comedy 11. Alexandrian Comedy and Farce

PART IV - ON PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, AND ORATORY

Chapter Twelve - ADVANTAGES AND OBSTACLES Chapter Thirteen - THE BREAK WITH THE MYTHS Chapter Fourteen - THE ART OF ORATORY Chapter Fifteen - THE FREE PERSONALITY Chapter Sixteen - SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION Chapter Seventeen - HISTORY AND ETHNOLOGY

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