Lemnos.—Euboe'a.—Cyc'la-des.—De'los.—Spor'a-des.—Crete.—Rhodes.—Sal'amis.—Ægi'na.—Cyth'-era.—"Venus Rising from the Sea."—Woolner.
Stroph'a-des.—Virgil.—Paxos.—Zacyn'thus.—Cephalo'nia.—Ith'aca.—Leu'cas or Leuca'dia.—Corcy'ra or Cor'fu.—"Gardens of Alcin'o-us."

[CHAPTER II.]
THE FABULOUS AND LEGENDARY PERIOD OF GRECIAN HISTORY.

  1. Grecian Mythology.
  2. Value of the Grecian Fables.— J. Stuart Blackie
    The Battle of the Giants.— He'siod
    Hymn to Jupiter.— Clean'thes
    The god Apollo.— Ov'id.
    Fancies of the Greek Mind.— Wordsworth: LIDDELL: Blackie.
    The Poet's Lament.— Schiller.
    The Creation.— Ovid.
    The Origin of Evil.— Hesiod.
    What Prome'theus Personified.— Blackie.
    The Punishment of Prometheus.— Æs'chylus: Shelley
    Deluge of Deuca'lion.— Ovid.
    Moral Characteristics of the Gods, etc.— MAHAFFY: GLADSTONE: Homer: Æschylus: Hesiod.
    Oaths.— Homer: Æschylus: Soph'ocles: Virgil.
    The Future State.— Homer.
    1. Story of Tan'talus.— Blackie
    2. The Descent of Or'pheus.— Ovid: Homer.
    3. The Elys'ium.— Homer: Pindar.
  3. Hindu and Greek Skepticism.— (Cornhill Magazine).
  4. The Earliest Inhabitants of Greece.
  5. The Founding of Athens.—Blackie.
  6. The Heroic Age.
    1. The Greek Armament.— Eurip'ides.
    2. The name Helen.— Æschylus.
    3. Ulysses and Thersi'tes.— Homer. (Pope).
    4. Combat of Menela'us and Paris.— Homer. (Pope).
    5. Parting of Hector and Androm'a-che.— Homer. (Pope).
    6. Hector's Exploits and Death of Patro'clus.— Homer. (Pope).
    7. The Shield of Achilles.— Homer. (Sotheby).
    8. Address of Achilles to his Horses.— Homer. (Pope).
    9. The Death of Hector.— Homer. (Bryant).
    10. Priam Begging for Hector's Body.— Homer. (Cowper).
    11. Lamentations of Andromache and Helen.— Homer. (Pope).
  7. Heroic Times foretold to Adam.— Milton
    Twelve Labors of Hercules.— Homer.
    Fable of Hercules and Antæ'us.— Collins.
    The Argonautic Expedition.— Pindar.
    Legend of Hy'las.— Bayard Taylor.
    The Trojan War.
  8. The Fate of Troy.— Virgil: Schiller.
    Beacon Fires from Troy to Argos.— Æschlus.
    Remarks on the Trojan War.— THIRLWALL: GROTE.
    Fate of the Actors in the Conflict.— Ennius: Landor: Lang.
  9. Arts and Civilization in the Heroic Age.
  10. Political Life of the Greeks.— MAHAFFY: HEEREN.
    Domestic Life and Character.— MAHAFFY: Homer.
    The Raft of Ulysses.— Homer.
  11. The Conquest of Peloponnesus, and Colonies in Asia Minor.
  12. Return of the Heracli'dæ.— Lucan.

[CHAPTER III.]

EARLY GREEK LITERATURE, AND GREEK COMMUNITY OF INTERESTS.

  1. Ionian Language and Culture.—FELTON.
  2. Homer and his Poems.— Antip'ater: FELTON: TALFOURD: Pope: COLERIDGE.
  3. Some Causes of Greek Unity.
  4. The Grecian Festivals.
    1. Chariot Race and Death of Ores'tes.— Sophocles.
    2. Apollo's Conflict with the Python.— Ovid.
    3. The Apollo Belvedere.— Thomson.
  5. National Councils.

[CHAPTER IV.]