[CHAPTER VII.]

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GREEK COLONIES.

The Cave of the Cumæ'an Sibyl.—Virgil: GROTE.
The'ron of Agrigen'tum.—Pindat.
Increase among the Sicilian Greeks.—GROTE.

[CHAPTER VIII.]

PROGRESS OF LITERATURE AND THE ARTS.

  1. The Poems of Hesiod.—"Winter."—FELTON: MURE: THIRLWALL: MAHAFFY.
  2. Lyric Poetry.
  3. Calli'nus of Ephesus.—"War Elegy".
    Archil'ochus of Pa'ros—SYMONDS: MAHAFFY.
    Alc'man.—"Sleep, or Night."—MURE.
    Ari'on.—Stesich'orus.—MAHAFFY. —"Spoils of War."—Akenside. —"Defence of."—SYMONDS: Antip'ater.
    Anac'reon.—"The Grasshopper."—Akenside.
  4. Early Grecian Philosophy.
  5. The Seven Sages.—(Maxims).—GROTE.
    Tha'les, Anaxim'enes, Heracli'tus, Diog'enes, Anaximan'der, and Xenoph'anes.
    Pythag'oras and his Doctrines.—Blackie: Thomson: Coleridge: Lowell.
    The Eleusin'ian Mysteries.—Virgil.
  6. Architecture.
  7. The Cyclo'pean Walls.—Lord Houghton.
    Dor'ic, Ion'ic, and Corinthian Orders.—Thomson.
    Cher'siphron, and the Temple of Diana.—Story.
    Temples at Pæs'tum.—Cranch.
  8. Sculpture.
  9. Glaucus, Rhoe'cus, Theodo'rus, Dipæ'nus, Scyllis.
    Cause of the Progress of Sculpture.—THIRLWALL.

[CHAPTER IX.]