Earliest Prose Writings, [178].—The Seven Sages, [179].—Solon, [179].—Thales, [180].—Æsop, [181].—Progress of Greek Prose, [182].—Early Philosophers and Historians, [183].
[Chapter V].—Golden Age of Grecian Literature.
(Pages 184-262.)
The Attic Period, [184].—Pindar, [185].—Antimachus, [192].—Dramatic Poetry, [192].—Æschylus, [194].—“Prometheus Chained,” [196].—Sophocles, [200].—“King Œdipus,” [202].—Euripides, [207].—“Medea,” [209].—Greek Comedy, [212].—Aristophanes, [213].—“The Clouds,” [214].—“The Birds,” [219].—History, [221].—Herodotus, [222].—Thucydides, [225].—Xenophon, [229].—Ctesias and Theopompus, [233].—Philosophy, [234].—The Ionic and Italic Schools, [234].—Pythagoras, [235].—Empedocles, [236].—Xenophanes, [237].—Democritus, [237].—School of Epicurus, [238].—Pyrrho, the Skeptic, [238].—The Socratic School, [239].—Plato and the Academic School, [241].—“Phædo,” [244].—Aristotle and the Peripatetic School, [247].—Aristotle’s Writings, [248].—Theophrastus, [252].—The Stoic School, [253].—The Cynics, [254].—Oratory, [255].—Demosthenes, [256].—The Speech “On the Crown,” [257].—Æschines, [260].
[Chapter VI].—The Alexandrian Period.
(Pages 262-280.)
Decline of Letters, [262].—The New Comedy, [263].—Menander, [264].—Philemon, [265].—Pastoral Poetry, [266].—Theocritus, [266].—Bion and Moschus, [269].—The Museum, [272].—The Alexandrian Library, [273].—Poetry at Alexandria, [274].—Callimachus, [274].—Apollonius Rhodius, [275].—Writers on Science, [276].—Critics and Grammarians, [277].—History, [277].—Polybius, [278].—The Septuagint, [279].
[Chapter VII].—Later Greek Literature.
(Pages 230-302.)
Decay of Greek Genius, [280].—Writers of the First Century B.C., [281].—Writers of the First Three Christian Centuries, [284].—Plutarch, [285].—Lucian, [288].—Pausanias, [292].—Origen, [293].—Neo-Platonism, [293].—Longinus, [294].—Athanasius and Chrysostom, [294].—Novel writers, [295].—Hierocles, [295].—Byzantine Literature, [297].—The Greek Anthology, [297].—Gems of Greek Thought, [300].