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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
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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. ?to'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'n?.--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.--?gi'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
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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.--?S'CHYLUS: SHELLEY Deluge of Deuca'lion.--OVID. Moral Characteristics of the Gods, etc.--MAHAFFY: GLADSTONE: HOMER: ?SCHYLUS: HESIOD. Oaths.--HOMER: ?SCHYLUS: 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 Ant?'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.--?SCHYLUS. 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.--?SCHYLUS. 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'd?.--LUCAN.
CHAPTER III
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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
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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
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FORMS OF GOVERNMENT, AND CHANGES IN GRECIAN POLITICS.
Introductory.--THIRLWALL: LEG'AR��.
I. Changes from Aristocracies to Oligarchies.--HEEREN.
II. Changes from Oligarchies to Despotisms.--THIRLWALL: HEEREN: BULWER: TYRTOE'US.
CHAPTER VI
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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
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GREEK COLONIES.
The Cave of the Cum?'an Sibyl.--VIRGIL: GROTE. The'ron of Agrigen'tum.--PINDAR. Increase among the Sicilian Greeks.--GROTE.
CHAPTER VIII
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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. Alc?us.--"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 P?s'tum.--CRANCH.
V. Sculpture. Glaucus, Rhoe'cus, Theodo'rus, Dip?'nus, Scyllis. Cause of the Progress of Sculpture.--THIRLWALL.
CHAPTER IX
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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'yl?. 1. Invincibility of the Spartans.--HAYGARTH. 2. Description of the Contest.--HAYGARTH. 3. Epitaphs on those who fell.--SIMON'IDES. 4. The Tomb of Leon'idas.--ANON. 5. Eulogy on the Fallen.--BYRON Naval Conflict at Artemis'ium.--PLUTARCH: PINDAR. The Abandonment of Athens. The Battle of Salamis. 1. Xerxes Views the Conflict.--BYRON. 2. Flight of Xerxes.--JUVENAL: ALAMANNI. 3. Celebrated Description of the Battle.--MITFORD: ?SCHYLUS. 4. Another Account.--BLACKIE. The Battle of Plat?'a. 1. Description of the Battle.--BULWER. 2. Importance of the Victory.--SOUTHEY: BULWER. 3. Victory at Myc'a-le.--BULWER. 4. "The Wasps."--ARISTOPHANES.
CHAPTER X
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THE RISE AND GROWTH OF THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE.
I. The Disgrace and Death of Themistocles. Tributes to his Memory.--PLATO: GEMINUS: THIRLWALL. II. The Rise and Fall of Cimon. Character