GREEK LITERATURE.
INTRODUCTION.—1. Greek Literature and its Divisions.—2. The Language.— 3. The Religion.
PERIOD FIRST.—1. Ante-Homeric Songs and Bards.—2. Poems of Homer; the
Iliad; the Odyssey.—3. The Cyclic Poets and the Homeric Hymns.—4. Poems
of Hesiod; the Works and Days; the Theogony.—5. Elegy and Epigram;
Tyrtaeus; Achilochus; Simanides.—6. Iambic Poetry, the Fable, and Parody;
Aesop.—7. Greek Music and Lyric Poetry; Terpander.—8. Aeolic Lyric
Poets; Alcaeus; Sappho; Anacreon.—9. Doric, or Choral Lyric Poets;
Alcman; Stesichorus; Pindar.—10. The Orphic Doctrines and Poems.—11.
Pre-Socratic Philosophy; Ionian, Eleatic, Pythagorean Schools.—12.
History; Herodotus.
PERIOD SECOND.—1. Literary Predominance of Athens.—2. Greek Drama.—3.
Tragedy.—4. The Tragic Poets; Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides.—5.
Comedy; Aristophanes; Menander.—6. Oratory, Rhetoric, and History;
Pericles; the Sophists; Lysias; Isocrates; Demosthenes; Thucydides;
Xenophon.—7. Socrates and the Socratic Schools; Plato; Aristotle.
PERIOD THIRD.—1. Origin of the Alexandrian Literature.—2. The
Alexandrian Poets; Philetas; Callimachus; Theocritus; Bion; Moschus.—3.
The Prose Writers of Alexandria; Zenodotus; Aristophanes; Aristarchus;
Eratosthenes; Euclid; Archimedes.—4, Philosophy of Alexandria; Neo-
Platonism.—5. Anti-Neo-Platonic Tendencies; Epictetus; Lucian; Longinus.
—6. Greek Literature in Rome; Dionysius of Halicarnassus; Flavius
Josephus; Polybius; Diodorus; Strabo; Plutarch.—7. Continued Decline of
Greek Literature.—8. Last Echoes of the Old Literature; Hypatia; Nonnus;
Musaeus; Byzantine Literature.—9. The New Testament and the Greek
Fathers. Modern Literature; the Brothers Santsos and Alexander Rangabé.