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in seven volumes, by George Finlay, a British
historian, long resident at Athens, is noted for a thorough knowledge of
Greek topography, art, and antiquity. The completed work embraces a
period from the conquest of Greece by the Romans to the middle of the
present century.
A History of Greek Literature, by J, P. Mahaffy, is the most polished
descriptive work in the department which it embraces. It is happily

supplemented by J. Addington Symonds' Studies of the Greek Poets.
Mr. Mahaffy, in common with many German scholars, is an unbeliever
in the unity of the Iliad.

CONTENTS.
[The names of authors from whom selections are taken are in
CAPITOLS.]
CHAPTER I
.
GENERAL VIEW OF THE GRECIAN STATES AND ISLANDS.
Introductory.--Olympus.--HEMANS.--Pi'e-rus.--POPE. 1.
Thessaly.--Tem'pe.-HEMANS. 2. Epi'rus.--Cocy'tus, Ach'eron,
Dodo'na.--MILTON: HAYGARTH: BYRON. 3. Acarna'nia. 4. Æto'lia.
5. Lo'cris. 6. Do'ris. 7.
Pho'cis.--Parnassus.--BYRON.--Delphi.--HEMANS. 8.
Boeo'tia.--Thebes.--SCHILLER. 9. Attica.--BYRON. 10.
Corinth.--BYRON: HAYGARTH. 11. Acha'ia. 12. Arca'dia. 13.
Ar'golis.--Myce'næ.--HEMANS. 14. Laco'nia. 15. Messe'nia. 16. E'lis.
17. The Isles of Greece.--BYRON.
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.
I. Grecian Mythology. 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.
Hindu and Greek Skepticism.--(Cornhill Magazine).
II. The Earnest Inhabitants of Greece. The Founding of
Athens.--BLACKIE.
III. The Heroic Age. 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. 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). The Fate of
Troy.--VIRGIL: SCHILLER. Beacon Fires from Troy to
Argos.--ÆSCHYLUS. Remarks on the Trojan War.--THIRLWALL:
GROTE. Fate of the Actors in the Conflict.--ENNIUS: LANDOR:
LANG.
IV. Arts and Civilization in the Heroic Age. Political Life of the
Greeks.--MAHAFFY: HEEREN. Domestic Life and
Character.--MAHAFFY: HOMER. The Raft of Ulysses.--HOMER.
V. The Conquest of Peloponnesus, and Colonies in Asia Minor. Return
of the Heracli'dæ.--LUCAN.
CHAPTER III
.
EARLY GREEK LITERATURE, AND GREEK COMMUNITY OF
INTERESTS.
Ionian Language and Culture.--FELTON.

I. Homer and his Poems.--ANTIP'ATER: FELTON: TALFOURD:
POPE: COLERIDGE.
II. Some Causes of Greek Unity. 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. The
National Councils.
CHAPTER IV
.
SPARTA, AND THE LEGISLATION OF LYCURGUS.
Description of Sparta.--THOMSON.
I. The Constitution of Lycurgus. Spartan Patriotic
Virtue.--TYMNOE'US.
II. Spartan Poetry and Music. Spartan March.--CAMPBELL.:
HEMANS. Songs of the Spartans.--PLUTARCH: TERPAN'DER:
PINDAR: ION.
III. Sparta's Conquests. War-song.--TYRTOE'US.
CHAPTER V
.
FORMS OF GOVERNMENT, AND CHANGES IN GRECIAN
POLITICS.
Introductory.--THIRLWALL: LEG'ARÉ.
I. Changes from Aristocracies to Oligarchies.--HEEREN.
II. Changes from Oligarchies to Despotisms.--THIRLWALL:
HEEREN: BULWER: TYRTOE'US.
CHAPTER VI
.
THE EARLY HISTORY OF ATHENS.
I. The Legislation of Dra'co.
II. The Legislation of So'lon.--PLUTARCH: A'KENSIDE: SOLON:
THOMSON: SOLON.
III. The Usurpation of Pisis'tratus. The Usurper and his
Stratagem.--AKENSIDE. Solon's Appeal to the
Athenians.--AKENSIDE. Character of Pisistratus.--THIRLWALL.
Conspiracy of Harmodius and Aristogi'ton.--CALLIS'TRATUS.

IV. Birth of Democracy.--THIRLWALL.
CHAPTER VII
.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GREEK COLONIES.
The Cave of the Cumæ'an Sibyl.--VIRGIL: GROTE. The'ron of
Agrigen'tum.--PINDAR. Increase among the Sicilian
Greeks.--GROTE.
CHAPTER VIII
.
PROGRESS OF LITERATURE AND THE ARTS.
I. The Poems of Hesiod.--"Winter."--FELTON: MURE: THIRLWALL:
MAHAFFY.
II. Lyric Poetry. Calli'nus of Ephesus.--"War Elegy". Archil'ochus of
Pa'ros--SYMONDS: MAHAFFY. Alc'man.--"Sleep, or
Night."--MURE. Ari'on.--Stesich'orus.--MAHAFFY. Alcæus.--"Spoils
of War."--AKENSIDE. Sappho.--"Defence of."--SYMONDS:
ANTIP'ATER. Anac'reon.--"The Grasshopper."--AKENSIDE.
III. Early Grecian Philosophy. 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.
IV. Architecture. 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.
V. Sculpture. Glaucus, Rhoe'cus, Theodo'rus, Dipæ'nus, Scyllis. Cause
of the Progress of Sculpture.--THIRLWALL.
CHAPTER IX
.
THE PERSIAN WARS.
I. The Ionic Revolt.
II. The First Persian War. The Battle of Marathon. Legends of the
Battle.--HEMANS: BLACKIE. The Death of Milti'ades: his
Character.--GROTE: GILLIES. Aristi'des and
Themis'tocles:--THOMSON: PLUTARCH: THIRLWALL.

III. The Second Persian Invasion. Xerxes at Aby'dos.--HEROD'OTUS.
Bridging of the Hellespont.--JUVENAL: MILTON. The Battle of
Thermop'ylæ. 1. Invincibility of the Spartans.--HAYGARTH. 2.
Description of the Contest.--HAYGARTH. 3. Epitaphs on those who