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CONTENTS : V. 1. Characteristics of the Greek literature -- Religion of the Greeks -- Earliest popular songs -- Origin of the epic poetry -- Homer -- The cyclic poets -- The Homeric hymns -- Hesiod -- Other epic poets -- The elegy and the epigram -- Iambic poetry -- Progress of the Greek music -- The Aeolic school of lyric poetry -- Choral lyric poetry -- Pindar -- Theological and philosophical poetry -- The early Greek philosophers -- The early Greek historians -- Herodotus -- Literary predominance of Athens -- Origin of the Greek drama -- Form and character of the Greek tragedy -- Aeschylus -- Sophocles -- Euripides -- The other tragic poets -- V. 2. Origin and structure of the old comedy -- Aristophanes -- The other poets of the old comedy : the middle and new comedy -- Lyric and epic poetry during this period -- Political oratory at Athens previously to the influence of rhetoric -- The rhetoric of the sophists -- The beginnings of regular political and forensic oratory among the Athenians -- The political historiography of Thucydides -- The new cultivation of oratory by Lysias -- Isocrates -- The new beginning of Attic training : foundation of the Socratic schools -- Xenophon a

Author

from the German manuscript of K.O. Müller by George Cornwall Lewis and John William Donaldson

Publisher

Baldwin; Associated Faculty Pr Inc

Published

1850

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804612012

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities