1. Hebrew Literature; its Divisions.—2. The Language; its Alphabet; its Structure; Peculiarities, Formation, and Phases.—3. The Old Testament.— 4. Hebrew Education.—5. Fundamental Idea of Hebrew Literature.—6. Hebrew Poetry.—7. Lyric Poetry; Songs; the Psalms; the Prophets.—8. Pastoral Poetry and Didactic Poetry; the Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.—9. Epic and Dramatic Poetry; the Book of Job.—10. Hebrew History; the Pentateuch and other Historical Books.—11. Hebrew Philosophy.—12. Restoration of the Sacred Books.—13. Manuscripts and Translations.—14. Rabbinical Literature.—15. The New Revision of the Bible, and the New Biblical Manuscript.
EGYPTIAN LITERATURE.
1. The Language.—2. The Writing.—3. The Literature.—4. The Monuments.— 5. The Discovery of Champollion.—6. Literary Remains; Historical; Religious; Epistolary; Fictitious; Scientific; Epic; Satirical and Judicial.—7. The Alexandrian Period.—8. The Literary Condition of Modern Egypt.
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.
ROMAN LITERATURE.
INTRODUCTION.—1. Roman Literature and its Divisions.—2. The Language;
Ethnographical Elements of the Latin Language; the Umbrian; Oscan;
Etruscan; the Old Roman Tongue; Saturnian Verse; Peculiarities of the
Latin Language.—3. The Roman Religion.