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; Archilochus; Simonides.—6. Iambic Poetry, the Fable, and Parody; Aesop.—7. Greek Music and Lyric Poetry; Terpander.—8. Aeolic Lyric Poets; Alcasus; 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 Rangabe.